Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] copyright violation
From: "Steve LeHuray" <steve@streetphoto.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:23:00 -0400

> Let's pretend that I published a fine-art coffee table book, instead of
> posting images to the web.   What's to stop this same guy in Turkey from
> scanning the pages from the book (with a cheap $59 flatbed scanner) and
> doing exactly what he has done with my web images?  And the scans from a
> book would look a lot better than the tiny little jpgs from my web site
> (which he claims to be making poster sized prints from)?
>
> dan c.

Dan - that could not happen because printed images have a very fine screen
on them and if somebody tried to enlarge the picture the dots would become
much bigger and ruin the picture. Take a magnifying glass and look at the
picture in any book or magazine.

sl

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