10-04-2007, 09:20 PM
Ioannis said:-
Dan is right - important helmets/types can be illustrated by drawings/electronic renderings etc until a photo becomes available - and, Gioi and Giannis, all is not lost with your painstaking collections - you know where they are, so permission can be sought ( by e-mail, even) and in many cases will be given, with due accreditation - most museums etc are happy to advertise that way. And if not, there is nothing stopping you copying it in some way - as long as what is posted is an original rendition )
Quote:The only solution is to host the database in a different site, of not profit character (i.e. of educational character)....the proposed Database will be just that, surely? - non-commercial, of educational character.
Quote:If there are important helmets that no one can get a picture of except via copyrighted sources, maybe someone more artistic than I could at least sketch it from the photo?
Dan is right - important helmets/types can be illustrated by drawings/electronic renderings etc until a photo becomes available - and, Gioi and Giannis, all is not lost with your painstaking collections - you know where they are, so permission can be sought ( by e-mail, even) and in many cases will be given, with due accreditation - most museums etc are happy to advertise that way. And if not, there is nothing stopping you copying it in some way - as long as what is posted is an original rendition )
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff