QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Sun 12th July 2009, 3:57pm)
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As you know, the images from our client’s website that you have copied were made available from our client’s website using “Zoomify†software. As you know, Zoomify is an application that is used to publish photographic images in such a way that an entire high resolution image is never made available to a user although high-resolution extracts or “tiles†are made available one-at-a-time. Our client used the Zoomify technology to protect our client’s copyright in the high resolution images.
Is it possible that "Dcoetzee" somehow combined a series of "detail" tiles together? Does NPG still permit the use "Zoomify" or perhaps they disabled this to prevent further intrusions? If so "free culture" has already lessened the amount of information available to "want to to be free."
1.12 MB strikes me as very large, even for a high resolution image, which would fit with an assembled image explanation.
Oh, I missed the part about
zoomify. I hate reading legalese. Seems this software can zoom in and out of an image much like google maps.
So, yeah, it looks like Dcoetzee had to patch together detailed images to come up with one big image. For a 2400x2895 jpg, 1.12M doesn't seem unreasonable.
I haven't found any images on NPG that I can zoomify yet but I have found plenty of disclaimers. For example,
here,
here and
here [pdf].
I guess there's a distinction between free as in libre and free as in beer.
If I was Dcoetzee I wouldn't plan on visiting the UK any time soon.
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