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  • From: Pranesh Prakash <pranesh AT cis-india.org>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] TPMs & Open Access
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:24:03 +0530

Rob Myers [2013-01-26 16:33]:
> I think it would be good to ensure that watermarks/fingerprints can be
> removed. They have no expressive purpose as part of a work and are
> essentially spyware.

Could you please elaborate on this? How are watermarks "spyware"? And
if a photographer wishes to use a creative commons licence and wishes to
rely not on metadata for acknowledgement purposes but on visible marks,
then why should that not be allowed?

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