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There should be something here about his trial. -- 75.151.116.106 ( talk) 21:48, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Please remove the images taken without authorization from the American Museum of Photography website, www.photographymuseum.com . Please do a web search for information on UK Law regarding Publication Right, which protects intellectual property in this class (or review this page: http://www.artquest.org.uk/artlaw/copyright/29040.htm ).
There are good reasons (besides common courtesy) to ask for, and secure, permission before republishing images posted to the web. It is not only a potential legal violation, it is having a chilling effect on scholarship. Piracy is the reason that some museums have removed thousands of older photographs from their websites; these museums now make their images available through online picture libraries which plaster large watermarks all over them.
In addition, there is an outrageous error in the identification of the Mumler self-portrait. You may contact me via email for the correct identification, and a source.
Bill Becker —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.112.224.123 ( talk) 02:07, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
The caption under the top photograph ("Robert Bonner...") does not match the caption on the photograph page, which says it is of Mumler himself. Liadmalone ( talk) 11:17, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Perhaps I'm picking it up wrong, but it seems to me like this article is implying that Mumler's skilful artefacts might actually be real. As everyone from P.T. Barnum onwards has immediately surmised, they are craftily worked double-exposures. Yet the article quotes widely from credulous paranormal investigators with books to sell. -- Oscar Bravo ( talk) 06:48, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
The footnote for the Mumler process refers to page 304 of Kaplan's book, but the paperback edition is sitting right next to me and only goes to page 265. (Amazon lists 288 pages because of a foreward numbered with Roman numerals.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.169.188.9 ( talk) 20:24, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
![]() | A fact from William H. Mumler appeared on Wikipedia's
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There should be something here about his trial. -- 75.151.116.106 ( talk) 21:48, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Please remove the images taken without authorization from the American Museum of Photography website, www.photographymuseum.com . Please do a web search for information on UK Law regarding Publication Right, which protects intellectual property in this class (or review this page: http://www.artquest.org.uk/artlaw/copyright/29040.htm ).
There are good reasons (besides common courtesy) to ask for, and secure, permission before republishing images posted to the web. It is not only a potential legal violation, it is having a chilling effect on scholarship. Piracy is the reason that some museums have removed thousands of older photographs from their websites; these museums now make their images available through online picture libraries which plaster large watermarks all over them.
In addition, there is an outrageous error in the identification of the Mumler self-portrait. You may contact me via email for the correct identification, and a source.
Bill Becker —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.112.224.123 ( talk) 02:07, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
The caption under the top photograph ("Robert Bonner...") does not match the caption on the photograph page, which says it is of Mumler himself. Liadmalone ( talk) 11:17, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Perhaps I'm picking it up wrong, but it seems to me like this article is implying that Mumler's skilful artefacts might actually be real. As everyone from P.T. Barnum onwards has immediately surmised, they are craftily worked double-exposures. Yet the article quotes widely from credulous paranormal investigators with books to sell. -- Oscar Bravo ( talk) 06:48, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
The footnote for the Mumler process refers to page 304 of Kaplan's book, but the paperback edition is sitting right next to me and only goes to page 265. (Amazon lists 288 pages because of a foreward numbered with Roman numerals.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.169.188.9 ( talk) 20:24, 20 November 2020 (UTC)