Wednesday 3.8.2016
I was planning to take GoPro Hero to the Mazotos, and use them to expand my YouTube video collection and maybe take some still photographs also. Maybe not this time.
We were advised that all recreational photography is very restricted. We can take photos and videos while on site, but they all belong to and are copyrighted to the project. Images will be downloaded to project servers after each day, and the deleted from the camera memory cards. We need special permissions from the archaeological director to keep any of the them.
In a way I can understand this. The project wants to keep a tight lid on how and when to publicize the photographs, videos and other deliverables of the project. Images can be worth something, at least in a way of creating goodwill and interest in further funding. And of course, low quality images will reduce interest and hurt future funding. Also, it could be that the funding agencies for current project want to be able to use the images for their own commercial use. Those who pay, they can say.
Either way, I hope I will get permissions to bring home at least some of the photographs/videos that I will take on the site.
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| Mazotos wreck, Maritime Archaeological Research Laboratory, Univ of Cyprus. (https://ucy.ac.cy/marelab/en/research/mazotos-shipwreck) |
"Those who pay, they can say." Catchy! Have a blast under, over, and in the waters of Cyprus!
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