Great information Garth, unfortunately some folks on this site don't get it. I
appreciate the information.
Sam ...
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From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, December 23, 1999 11:49 AM
Subject: [OM] Fair Use doctrine and copyright
Hi, folks.
I'm providing a URL to an Andover News story about a prima facie copyright
violation of a photographer's images which was ultimately found to be a
non-violation under the doctrine of 'fair use.' This may be of interest to any
one of us who post our images on the Web, although you should read the *entire*
story for context.
It can be found at:
http://www.andovernews.com/cgi-bin/news_story.pl?101675/topstories
It gives me pause, but not a lot. My legal training (such as it is) has
always told me that these cases are highly dependent on the facts, and there
are very few concrete guiding principles around when a copyright is violated or
when 'fair use' can negate such a violation.
The long and the short of it is, if your images are posted on the Web,
somebody sooner or later may try to use them without compensating you in any
way, regardless of how many copyright notices you splash all over them. C'est
la vie.
Garth
"A bad day doing photography is better
than a good day doing just about
anything else."
The Unofficial Olympus Web Photo Gallery at:
http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/
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