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[marilyn brakhage]

Dear Dave Tetzlaff,  It would be nice if you would stop attributing  
positions and opinions to people that those people don't have, or  
suggesting, by implication, that they do things they don't do.  You  
have no idea who I charge and who I don't charge, or whether I ever  
"demand" anything at all. And one thing you are leaving out is that  
all people, in various walks of life, not just in the art world, but  
including in the art world, do have a "right" to charge other people  
for services provided.  If time and money is being spent to provide a  
service, one has a "right" to charge for the service given (if one so  
chooses).  If expertise and advice is wanted, one has the "right" to  
charge for that expertise and advice (if one so chooses).  Fred Camper  
and I (sometimes) collect fees for a service that we provide.  This  
has nothing to do with copyright law.  However, as to the separate  
question of copyright and fair use, what is "fair use" is obviously  
determined in part by whether or not the use is "of a commercial  
nature" (vs research, criticism, teaching purposes), as well as by the  
nature of the work, the amount used, and "the effect of the use upon  
the . . . value of the copyrighted work."  The original discussion  
here began over someone who was inquiring about how to obtain "high  
resolution images . . .  for a book".  Obviously there are sources and  
methods that are better or worse, for various reasons.  But  
"permission" is another matter.  -- People sometimes do, but often  
don't, ask my "permission" to use images.  They are more likely to  
contact us simply to ask if we can provide them. However, while there  
are, of course, many things that one does not have to ask any  
permission for, I do appreciate the consideration of those people who  
do ask for permission for various different uses of Brakhage work.   
And if you are really of the general opinion that "asking permission  
of anyone for anything is ideologically regressive, and frankly  
irresponsible" -- well, I guess you live in a different universe than  
I do.

No more time for this conversation I'm afraid.  Much too busy  
(providing mostly free services).

Marilyn Brakhage


On 3-Oct-15, at 11:38 AM, Dave Tetzlaff wrote:

> If Marilyn deems it appropriate to charge 'small' fees that go to  
> Fred for his labor in providing "high quality images to represent  
> the films", that seems fair, but her 'small' could be a struggling  
> PhD student or fan-blogger's bridge-to-far, and she has no right to  
> exclude their ability to participate in discourse around the films  
> by using any fee, or a demand for any aspect of reproduction, as a  
> gateway obstruction.

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