[KS] Pictori

[Roald Maliangkay]

Dear Mr Hoffmann,

Thank you very much for your feedback. We really appreciate it.

The site is not private but owned by ANU's Korea Institute in the sense that
we set it up and thus have some ownership of the software and design, but
certainly not the images, which will remain the ownership of the users. We
would want that to be very clear, so we will adjust the text accordingly.
Our College's IT division does take people's collections very seriously, so
it will do what it can to ensure people's collections are secure. It will
not, however, claim the collections as its own. During the development much
thought went into what would put off people considering uploading their
collection, and too much ANU branding certainly was one of those issues. As
I am sure you can imagine, our university was concerned about Copyright
issues etc., so we needed to make sure many disclaimers and forms of
security were installed to ensure people's collections would be secure and
that there were clear guidelines so people would at least be informed of the
risks involved in general, as it would always be possible that some one
might misuse or misrepresent an image that they had chosen to share for
general use. 

Copyright and security remain a serious issue, and we will try to do as you
ask and make things even clearer, but as you will see when you upload an
image, there is a somewhat grey area. For example, if you are in Australia
and you upload an image of some one from the US, Copyright legislation
(incl. Wikimedia guidelines) does not actually provide much help in
determining whether US law or Australian law would apply. What is more,
making the Copyright warnings and disclaimers even more prominent might
scare off potential uploaders (but we will certainly try and provide clearer
guidelines!). I would really like people to use the images easily, so we
will adjust the information to ensure this raises as few questions as
possible.

Finally, the logo, again, was developed with the general public in mind. The
cat might not be in everyone's taste, but it is simple and very much
influenced by Hergé. It remains a matter of taste, I guess. So far the
responses have been very positive, but if many people dislike it, I would be
happy to seek another one. I personally do not associate a tiger with Korea,
but maybe many people do. A simple tiger logo risks associating many
commercial products, or the Rotterdam International Film Festival. It gets
complicated quickly, because a logo should not associate only North and/or
South Korea. It really is intended to facilitate the sharing of images, so
we will try to make sure it is as clear and as easy as possible.

Thank you again for your feedback!

Best wishes,

Roald

______________________________

Dr. Roald H. Maliangkay
Dept. for Korean Studies
College of Asia & the Pacific
Baldessin Precinct Building #110, Room E4.37
The Australian National University
Acton, Canberra ACT 0200,
AUSTRALIA
Tel: + 61 2 6125 3191
Fax: +61 2 6125 0745





On 28/03/13 12:22 AM, "Frank Hoffmann" <hoffmann at koreaweb.ws> wrote:

> Dear Dr. Maliangkay:
> 
> RE:  http://pictori.net
> This is a wonderful idea! And the site looks great.
> 
> A question and two suggestions:
> 
> (a) 
> Is this now a "private" website with support from various institutions
> or is this an official project also owned by ANU? (I read the "About"
> text on the website and it still was not clear to me.) It would be
> important for those who consider uploading anything and entrust you
> with their images to clarify this in detail.
> 
> (b) 
> Personally, I feel that everything around copyrights should be
> explained much better and really clarified. (I suggest to use
> Wikipedia's copyright explanations for their images as a model, or to
> at least look into how they explain issues around copyrights.) Again,
> this *is* very essential for anyone who uploads images, as well as for
> those who wonder if and how they might be able to use images downloaded
> from PICTORI.NET.
> 
> (c)
> Suggestion: That Pinocchio-esque logo, which then seems to appear on
> uploaded images, has no relation to Korea and reminds me of 1960s and
> 70s Sowjet TV programs for children. I at least would not feel very
> comfortable to see that logo on Korea related images I might upload
> (and even looking at images with that logo makes me feel I landed at
> the wrong airport). Can there not be a far more 'neutral' and
> non-personal logo? Or maybe a larger, more appealing cat--such as a
> tiger, that would at least relate to Korea then.
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> Frank
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Frank Hoffmann
> http://koreaweb.ws
> 
> 


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