[Land-speed] Fw: Media Passes...

[Ed Weldon]

Fwd to list with edits.
Ed Weldon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon at comcast.net>
To: <drmayf at mayfco.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] List is Too Quiet...Did I kill it with my griping?


> "Been away a bit but I thought I might comment on this subject since I
> helped stir it up.
> So we're here in a discussion about copyrights, freedom of expression and
> the press design, artists rights and all the related stuff.  Lots of us
have
> our opinions and they can differ a bunch.  But I think that every
subculture
> is diffferent when it comes to that sort of thing.
> Not too long ago I got into another hobby area's discussion on this
subject.
> It was a healthy debate, sometimes impassioned.  It helped frame a fairly
> good ethical framework for that hobby group with respect to the questions
at
> hand.
> We're doing the same thing here.
> What I for one see so far is that most of us don't care what use or profit
> is made from images of us, our operations or our cars.  But a few do care,
> especially when the image is used strictly for profit.  There's a lot more
> to it than that.  I'm not going to sit here and suggest entries in a "book
of
> manners".  But it seems to me that if you're going to produce a "public"
> image of someone or the machine he may have spent a good piece of his life
> building you could do worse than asking first."
> Ed Weldon
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "drmayf" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
> To: "LSR" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:05 PM
> Subject: [Land-speed] List is Too Quiet...Did I kill it with my griping?
>
>
> > testing for list aliveness....nothing in a day or so...
> > mayf