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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 1620480" data-attributes="member: 1025">I'm all in favor of compiling the Ceramic GM stuff--and would be happy to contribute my own--but I have a real problem with exchanging any money for it because a vast percentage of the pictures belong to someone who a) owns the copyright b) I presume hasn't been asked for permission to use their work and b) may be professional photographers/artists for whom the loss of income from violation of their copyright is a serious matter. If the stories work without thier photos, then I don't mind just publishing our own work. If permission from the photogrpahers can be gotten, then great. But a lot of the stoires are going to be in trouble without their pictures, I think. And some phtoographers are not going to release thier work without fee--photogrpahy is an expensive art, and many of these folks are independent businesspeople for who a single image sale is a signficant part of their income. One of the reasons I've volunteered to illustrate for these is the hope that someday we might churn out something ENWorlders can really "own." Perhaps we ought to do a round in which  all of the images are owned by ENWorlders who will grant permission to PDF distribute them--perhaps it could becoem a tradition for the final round of each competeion, or soemthing. We don't all have to be artists--there are a lot of people who can do all right with a digital camera and some imagination.  By the time we get to the finals, the art really has to come more from the authors than the illustrators anyway.</blockquote>

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