Dr. Shades wrote:I'm still trying to figure out the best way to allow images while immunizing us from being shut down.
Stand by to stand by.
It's a pity that one little image-terrorist can make a whole board so paranoid. In eleven years of posting on MBs I've never seen anything even remotely like this. Even if you ban him, yes, he may continue his misguided zealot campaign, but I feel quite sure it's going to have little effect considering what Quas said on another thread:
Quasimodo wrote:I've deliberately avoided making any comment about this whole affair out of professional courtesy (along with being an illustrator, I've been a professional photographer since I was in college).
I have thousands of illustrations and photographs posted all over the internet. I was paid well by my clients and I don't worry even a little about my images showing up in discussion boards. I've posted my own images on boards many times.
A few here, but mostly on clinical boards and illustration software web sites such as Corel and Illustrator.
I have scientific and medical images that are used on a regular basis by news organizations (AP, UPI, Reuters ) that I happily receive residual checks from in the mail.
If my images were being used in a book that was being sold without paying me in some way, I would be unhappy. If my images are being used in some format that was not for profit, I wouldn't care.
Joseph's crusade seems to be more about having an effect on the world and a feeling self importance than a protection of legal photographic rights. Like an adolescent who writes graffiti on a wall in the middle of the night.
I think banning Joseph would not have an effect. Ignoring Joseph would rob him of the thing that he wants most... attention.
No one here posts images "for profit", or for "commercial purposes", something Joseph doesn't seem able to get through to his head.
Once the fear of this is gone, the only thing left to do is get rid of the fear-monger. Stop giving him the attention he so craves.