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14 Jan, 2017
2017-1-14 12:10:36 PM UTC
No problem but at same time Deagol raises a few good questions ?
14 Jan, 2017
2017-1-14 12:28:20 PM UTC

Deagol wrote:
You say the website is to showcase your collections yet you have taken a lot of the book images from TolkienBooks.net - without any credit. You are also offering the super-deluxe Hobbit for sale in your store with an image that isn't your copy either. Have all the images been acquired from other websites?

Hi Deagol

The LOTR Arts Book Introduction gives credit to TolkienBooks.net:

"The images of books in this gallery are from TolkienBooks.net: An Illustrated Tolkien Bibliography and various other reference websites Tolkien Books

These images will be replaced with actual photos of the books and the collection display in the near future."


I will contact Tolkien Books to see if this is sufficient.
14 Jan, 2017
2017-1-14 12:31:21 PM UTC

Hi Deagol

The LOTR Arts Book Introduction gives credit to TolkienBooks.net:

"The images of books in this gallery are from TolkienBooks.net: An Illustrated Tolkien Bibliography and various other reference websites Tolkien Books

These images will be replaced with actual photos of the books and the collection display in the near future."


I will contact Tolkien Books to see if this is sufficient.

Deagol is Tolkienbooks.net, it is Deagol's website.
14 Jan, 2017
2017-1-14 5:33:30 PM UTC
Shouldn't you have contacted "Tolkien Books" first? Or are we following the Google approach to permissions/credit?

BH
14 Jan, 2017 (edited)
2017-1-14 8:40:40 PM UTC
I don't understand why you didn't just photograph the actual books in your collection?

If it was my site, I'd probably lose the main banner with the Movie imagery off the front page. It is quite sluggish and glitchy, plus.... I imagine that also potentially poses some copyright issues. I guess it depends on what you are trying to achieve with the site, but I personally find unnecessary motion and panning, etc, on web pages irritating. I'd much rather have a simple, clean interface. I'd say focus on the real content, more than the fluffy whizz-bang stuff that people might only look at once.
14 Jan, 2017
2017-1-14 10:58:50 PM UTC
I've swapped a few emails with Hadiya and we have agreed to add some TolkienBooks tags to the book images at LotR Arts.

I didn't realise it but we had swapped emails a few times 10 years ago.

Hadiya is new to websites and hadn't realised that visitors wouldn't necessarily visit the books gallery via the intro page. She wanted to get the site online in time for the professor's birthday so had borrowed TolkienBooks images as a stop gap until her books come out of storage. She realised she should have asked first, but jumped the gun in her enthusiasm.

We all make mistakes, but as far as I am concerned the matter is now closed, and look forward to seeing the site develop.
15 Jan, 2017
2017-1-15 1:50:50 PM UTC
Nice one.

BH
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