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Originally Posted by Ozrein
As far as that Catalog goes, if we could talk to a site like yojoe.com where they have pics for all items already, that'd make things alot easier. I know most, if not all, their pics have been submitted from users from their own collections, however I have no idea how the legalities of that work but I just thought I'd throw it out there anyway.
Oh and Faust, I did get your message about the pics, if you want to send anything you have over or I can contact you later tonight when I have a bit more time to spend on the catalog.
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As per the curation guide over here:
http://www.cybertron.ca/boards/showt...ight=shelflife
, pretty much the last place we would try to get pics is from a fan site /news site. The thing you need to understand is that all of those sites run on banner advertising money and the site hits come from having unique content. It would be unwise of them to share that content for free, and unwise for us to pay for it.
As such we need to access the other sources available to get the job done, which has gone rather well so far on other similar catalogues.
For the record, here are the general image sourcing guidelines again:
Regarding image sourcing, here are some tips:
1) Never take them from fan sites, photographers or blogs who make money/get eyeballs from their custom photos. A great example of a tempting but inelligible target is Seiberton.com galleries.
2) Best bet is take them yourself.
3) When you can't, try to get them from a fellow collector.
4) Where that fails, you can try to borrow them from online retailers who likely have nice photos and will discard them within months and never use them again. This really only works for new stuff.
5) Where #4 fails you can checked expired ebay auctions for personal use photos on products that have sold and will likely not be used again. This is less cool if it's a regular ebay vendor who may reuse their photos (think wheeljackslab).
6) If none of that works, leave it blank! One of the other site members will eventually fill it in.
Summary: Do your best, don't break any laws and we all win.
Cheers!
James
