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Post by kb on Jan 26, 2011 19:44:23 GMT 12
Peter, I have started to save the interesting stuff as PDF Files. Because the computer I access the site with is my business one and because I electronically file all my clients stuff, it calls for a great degree of safety. So my computer writes to two RAID enabled hard drives and I have three portable hard drives. At any one time one of those is attached to my computer, one is travelling with me and the other is at my other place of work. I back up at least twice a week.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 26, 2011 22:33:08 GMT 12
The Natinal Archive will have a copy of the forum I think. They ahve a mega-million dollar programme that has copied all NZ releated websites and any site that mentions NZ, so I think they will have picked up on the forum. There was something about this on National Radio last year.
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Post by westland831 on Jan 29, 2011 17:16:00 GMT 12
I too am another one who has bought photos from blokes on Trade Me... a great way to fill gaps in my collection. The topic raises an interesting point about, without putting too fine a point on it, integrity and honesty. For historical purposes I always write the date and location on my photos. If I get photos from other people I write the photographer's name on them as well. Likewise if I download from the internet I include all the details; rego, location, date, operator and photographer in the file name. It means I have got the details and photos or files are recorded as not mine.
I have used some I have purchased from blokes on my blogsite (http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.com) and normally type S Lowe Collection if not Photographer Unknown. Likewise I will type J Bloggs Collection if I have have obtained a photo through another person but i am not sure of the photographer. I think if the photos have been bought legitimately but we don't know the source it is fair enough to list them as belonging to our collection. With all the other photos I use on the blog I ask the photographer for permission to use them, some of whom have given me blanket permission to use their photos.
In the end I take my photos for not only my own enjoyment but the enjoyment of others. The internet, it seems, is the modern way of sharing photos as sharing the actual photos was in the past. Its all about finding a way of sharing our enjoyment of things aviation. I hope that can continue and continue without people falsely profiting from photos not rightly theirs.
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