One of the problems I'm encountering as I think about what my final project should be on is licensing of images. I really enjoy comic books and I'm sure I could make a stellar about some of my favorites, but unfortunately I know that I don't have rights to any of the images and that they would probably be carefully copyrighted. I'm not sure how long copyright lasts after an artist's death, so an older comic like Little Nemo by Winsor McCay might be possible.
Another idea I had would be to make a site about my favorite books. Wannabe librarian, books, seems pretty straightforward, right? Greatest book lists are always a little far fetched because everybody has such different perspectives and opinions. If you were to give 20 critics a list of 20 classics and ask them to rank them, I'm sure you'd end up with 20 different lists. I suppose Best of lists are kind of fun simply for their inflammatory nature. It gives people something to argue and debate about. For example, this list from the Telegrah claims it is the "Perfect Library." It's pretty good, I suppose but perfect? Come on! No library of only 110 books could possibly be perfect.
It'd be easy enough for me to make a site about my favorite books, give synopsizes, and critiques, but I'm not sure how wide of an appeal it would have since it's simply my own opinion. Also, I think I might run into the problem of image rights again if I wanted to include pictures of the covers. Perhaps it would work if I took my own pictures of the covers?
I'll have to do some more brainstorming to come up with ideas where I can easily use images of my own.
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Would you consider creating a website about South Africa. I am deeply interested in its history and social development I know that you lived there for awhile. You could provide tremendous insight.
Ugh. Copyright shmopyright. Those evil copyright people. I think it would be okay to have the pictures of the book covers as long as you don't claim to have drawn them yourself, right?
I would definately read your list of books. I LOVE learning about new books and arguing. Woo hoo!
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