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This Web site has laid fallow since 2006, but that doesn't mean that I've been idle. I'm more interested in working with my roses than maintaining a complicated Web site. Instead, I write a blog called A Hybridizer's Journal. You'll find my most recent article reproduced below. Meanwhile, the content of this Web site, Old Garden Roses and Beyond, will remain untouched. Please visit me at my blog for the latest about my work. From A Hybridizer's Journal: Back to Rugosa origins26-09-04, Parentage: 'Hansa' X "Magseed". Appearance-wise this is a completely unremarkable hybrid, but I value what it represents genetically. The pollen parent was given to me by it's creator Ralph Moore years ago; a cross of 'Anytime' and 'Rugosa Magnifica'. By crossing it back to an older "purebred" Rugosa I hoped to regain some of the Rugosa strength, character and, hopefully, health while infusing some of the modern miniature traits like generosity of bloom. From A Hybridizer's Journal: Dear Mr. Google, you and I need to have a little chat.
"Dear Paul When in need of an image (if we don't have one of our own) we regularly go to Google images. This is where we got the image and there is no mention of copyright. Perhaps you should review the uploading of your images to the internet. Apologies for the obvious distress this has caused you and we will remove the image straight away." (emphasis mine)
Did you catch that, the part about me reviewing how and what I upload to the Web??! In no uncertain terms this suggests that I am to blame for the misuse of my photo! Outrageous. Note also the remark about the apparent lack of a copyright statement in connection with the photo as presented in the Google images browser. Google has a clear policy about the terms of use of the Google Images feature: "Image use permissions From the URL: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?&&answer=9299 Prior to the Internet, it would have been inconceivable for a company to assemble a catalog using content that was not acquired legally and by paying for the rights to use it for marketing. Sadly, it appears that ethics are no longer regarded as an obstacle to acquiring advertising content. Here's the long and short of it: If you did not create the content, or if you did not obtain permission to use it and/or pay a fee for that usage, then its not yours to take. If you want to use it, ask. If you can't be bothered to ask, then hands off my work. Period. From A Hybridizer's Journal: Sabbatical I am announcing my decision to take a sabbatical from rose hybridizing. This may in fact lead to "retirement" from the work in time; I am open to that possibility. Right now, I have ceased generating new seedlings will and spend the next two seasons evaluating what I already have. After that, who knows. For more articles in this series, see: Paul Barden Roses: A Hybridizer's Journal.
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