Re: [pic] Castle

In article <745...@hugbear.NL.net>,
flu...@quadrant.xs4all.nl.spambgone (Hayley Jane Wakenshaw) wrote:
> 
> sjo...@sable.ox.ac.uk (Henry Segerman) writes:
> >Paul (ELP...@SPAM-B-GONE.sheffield.ac.uk) wrote:
> >: Henry Segerman wrote:------8<-------
> >
> >
> >: That is one excellent castle! Rather like Escher's "Ascending and Descending"
> >: Now that would be quite a challenge.
> >
> >Does anyone know if theres any copyright problems with asciifying an existing
> >art work? I believe the copyrights to Escher's work are owned by some
> >foundation or something. Or are they unlikely to be bothered?
> 
> I think for the most part there should be no problem. I've been browsing the
> Winnie The Pooh sites for material to work from, and most of those sites have
> a disclaimer which seems to have been imposed by the owners of the Pooh Bear
> name, and Disney. From what I've seen, those owners have searched the web for
> relevant sites and informed them that to avoid legal action they should display
> a disclaimer. This means they can use the Pooh image, but need to declare
> who owns it. BUT I've not seen or heard of this disclaimer on sites with ASCII
> of Pooh so I don't think they're bothered about that. :-)
> 
> Of course I could be talking out of my bum here, but that's the way it seems to me.
> Anyway, I've never had a problem with copyrighted images, and I don't think any
> other ascii-ists have either. :)
> 
> -Hayley

If I were going to display an Asciified image of someone else's work, I
would certainly put up that same disclaimer. We're always whinging about
people stripping our initials... we should not display a double standard
by doing virtually the same thing.
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