The purpose of this site is simply to advance the subject of web panoramas in their various forms, by creating a UTube type "registry" where everyone is free to View "panos in motion" and Upload their own, if they wish.

Critical Mass

It is hoped that people will simply use the Email Form to nominate their pano for display, but to "get the show on the road" we have Googled a few panos at random to display.

Please remain calm

If your pano was chosen for the Start-Up and you are about to phone your lawyer [who will incidentally do nothing] then please consider the following:

• We will remove it if you request [just use the Email Form]
• There will be a link above the pano back to your site [some are yet to be posted]
• In all cases we are resizing the image [which was freely available at Google] down-wise [to 320 high] so nobody would bother to copy from our site
• Any print of a pano 320 high would look horrible
• A reading of the leading case [under USA Law] Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 US 340,349 (1991) will tell you why you would not get up on such litigation.

It seems that the people who take the time and effort to travel, take pano photos and then process them are not the type of person we meet so often who gets a P&S camera for Xmas, takes a photo of the dog and screams Blue Murder about "copyright" and lawyers. Seems pano people are caring/sharing folk by nature.

But if not ....

If you are indeed a "Copyright Junkie" and want to scream Blue Murder, then please read this from Feist:

"The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts. To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art....[Copyright law] ultimately serves the purpose of enriching the general public through access to creative works."

IMHO it would very hard to argue that this site was not acting so as to "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"

Whatever, "International Law [Legislation]" has never come to terms with the Web, and I am in Australia, so USA Legislation does not apply.

What is more, I am an expert on Copyright Law in Oz [having had my E-Book pirated], which is why I am saying above that your lawyer will surely take your money if you scream Blue Murder, but will simply do nothing.

Next, the very first thing your lawyer will ask is "does he have any money" [because of the blood from a stone problem] and the answer is I "survive" on an Aged Pension, day to day, hand to mouth, and don't own a Brass Razoo.

Finally, for what it may be worth in Politically Correct Obfuscation:

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