Haveta disagree. Displaying someone else's work at a degraded quality is not
only a copyright violation but perhaps a more serious one as it involves actual
*copying* and fails to respect the artistic integrity of the original. If I
crank out cheap poor quality prints of Ansel Adam's *Moonrise* I may be doing
more harm to his intellectual property than if I make good ones. Consider if I
were to publish an unauthorized rendition of *Moby Dick* but I changed the
language to make it more current and *hip* or just condensed it for a quicker
read. Waitaminute, that's a brilliant idea! Let's call it *Scott's Notes.*
>>1. I think I agree that thumbnails are "fair game" because IMHO their size
>>and resolution makes them pretty useless except as "buttons" for
navigational purposes. (That's assuming, of course, that the word "thumbnail"
*isn't* defined as 8"x10") :-)<<
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