Donald's father (conclusion?) , Scans , Copying

Olivier mouse-ducks at wanadoo.fr
Thu Apr 19 20:16:01 CEST 2001


Hello!

Olaf:
>>Stop arguing about who was Donald's "FATHER"! Donald has one father;
>>Quackmore Duck! Walt Disney is the first person to introduce Donald for us,
>>even though that was an all different figure from the one we know, and Barks
>>was the best story teller about Donald.

(Please imagine a bulb magically turning on, sparked to life by the above remark)
Right!
*Quackmore* is Donald's father and no one else!
The duck artists are his *chroniclers*!


Kenneth:
>>I have an older version of Paint Shop Pro and it does not blur the picture
>>when you rotate it most be a problem with the newer software.

Well, the amount of  blur is a factor of  the angle of  rotation.
And actually I experimented with the function with an earlier version a couple of  years ago;
from then on I've always preferred to correct the tilt manually, however tedious it can get.
I think that, like jpg compression, it must be OK for photos because there is so much information.
but a drawing, and moreover a b&w drawing can't take it. Maybe "blur" wasn't the correct term;
"smudge"? As for compression, it's not a blur but a halo of  "grey" dots everywere.

>>I agree that crediting your self with someone else's work is not fair but I
>>see nothing wrong with useing someone else's work on you page as long as you
>>give them credit for it. As the Internet is freedom of information.

"Quoting" pictures without an official authorization is what we all do on our sites. But we
make it clear that they are not our property but the Walt Disney Company's and that no
profit is made out of it.
The Net enables webmasters to go even one step further than credifting: you can add
a link to the source.
The problem is that Angelo Toti doesn't ask permission, links in an ambiguous way that
makes its look like it's his own work, and instead of  crediting the author of  the original
site, he substitutes his own name for it.
Freedom (of information?) is not the point. (See Dan's example.)



Olivier




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