Sure, stupid and arrogant if they think alienating customers is a good idea or else smart and unethical if they're doing it for my second reason. Maybe both, but I would tend to go with the former. There are plenty of smart nice people in decision making positions in corporations, I'm sure. I really doubt whether corporate structures and goals allow many of them to behave that way when making decisions. I spent six weeks inside a munitions plant once. The degree of disconnection between the people there and what they were doing was truly amazing. At 11:02 AM -0400 9/30/02, Dan C wrote: >No, it sounds like a case of smart people to me. > >At 10:32 AM 30-09-02 -0400, Alan P. Hayes wrote: >[snip] >>using the service (our customers) is of no concern to us." Sounds >>like a case of stupid arrogant business people to me, or else another >>instance of corporate harvesting of intellectual property. >> >[snip] As far as an alternative to Fuji's approach, it's not that hard to find: <http://www.printroom.com/faq.asp?bm=term#termsserv> The pertinent paragraphs: Copyright Users retain all rights in any material uploaded to the service by the users. No copyrighted material may be placed on the service by anyone without the permission of the copyright owner, or persons authorized by the copyright owner to grant permission. You are responsible for obtaining the necessary permission before permitting any copyrighted material that belongs to others to be placed on the Printroom.com. You may download the material available on the service for your personal, non-commercial use. Except as may be permitted by the Copyright Law, you are responsible for obtaining permission before reusing any copyrighted material that is available on the service. It is the obligation of the individual members to ensure that no copyright is being violated by the posting of their photos. Members are solely responsible for the content of their photo albums. Grant of Limited License to Printroom.com Users grant Printroom.com a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license, with the right to reproduce, distribute, transmit, publicly display any materials and other information you submit to the service (the "Submitted Materials") for the purposes of (i) display on their sites and (ii) production of personalized photo finished products or reprints ordered by members or their guests. Printroom.com disclaims ownership of "Submitted Materials" and will not resell or otherwise convey these rights to any third party. You also grant to Printroom.com the right to use your name in connection with the Submitted Materials. No such License shall apply to the images not placed into online albums and submitted only for production of personalized photo finished products or reprints. Printroom.com will not use your images, submitted to albums or not, for promotion and marketing purposes without first obtaining your express permission to do so for each such image. -- "Red" Alan P. Hayes Pittsfield, Massachusetts <http://www.meaningandform.com/photography> <mailto:ahayes@berkshire.rr.com>
