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Re: [OM] Lycos' Legality of Thumbnail Collections

Subject: Re: [OM] Lycos' Legality of Thumbnail Collections
From: "Chris O'Neill" <coneill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:01:09 -0700
On 18 Jan 2001, at 14:07, Scott Nelson wrote:

> 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.

Point taken, and I accept your point-of-view.  But I fail to see how a 1" x 
1" thumbnail could be considered "art" instead of "just a button?"  I 
doubt someone's gonna print-out the thumbnail, frame it, and try to sell 
it.

JMHO, though.  You could be right.

Regards,

Chris

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