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In <1992Oct16.033130.20389@news.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu writes:

>  >>"Use of the workstations not related to scientific research and
>  >>education, especially playing games and the abuse of graphic displays
>  >>for displaying non-work-related pictures, is prohibited.
>  
>  This is a completely ineffective rule for controlling the display of
>  nudes.  As an example, I happen to have used a large corpus of images

I know that it is ineffective, they know it is ineffective, nobody
complains. They have written this sentence more as a warning to people
who don't want to get in trouble, not as a Great Rule To Solve Every
Problem (tm). You possibly can't imagine that we take the whole issue
not that serious and we have /no/ trouble with it, but that's the way
we see it. It will probably never be enforced unless an actual
complain occurs, which has not taken place yet. (The policy is some 6
months old.)

>  collected from usenet as test data for some image data compression
>  algorithms I was working on.  These algorithms have been published
>  in CACM and in the IEEE Data Compression Conference -- this isn't
>  just silly research.  Among the images were quite a few that were

[Grin] exactly that have I been told by a friend who's working /here/
on image compression...

>  likely subjects of censorship, yet the above policy would not have
>  regulated my display of such material because I had a legitimate
>  use for it.

Exactly. And I doubt if you would get into trouble with the people at
our Computer Center.

>  In a similar vein, it is worth noting that one of the most published
>  and republished images in the academic literature of image processing
>  and data compression is actually cropped from a Playboy centerfold.
>...

I heard of some copyright complaints by Playboy regarding the academic
use of Lena - but perhaps they should ask their P.R. department (if
they have one) if it's a bad idea to extend their magazine's scope
into the academic domain :-)

MfG,
        Olaf
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