I'd like to shift this discussion to the legal situation as I'm quite curious about it. Let's say you want to use a couple of photos from my website on your website. One is a picture of a poster that I printed. It's on my website here http://www.thomaslevine.com/photos/1130468970_a8288-L.jpg
Another is a picture of a very public city street. Nothing pictured in the photo is my creation. Let's say that my website says that this picture inspired the poster linked above. http://www.thomaslevine.com/Dump/Signs/IMG6314/926639476_7qnDL-L.jpg These images were really hard to find on my website. You didn't have to crack anything to get to the images, but you did have to guess directory names and stuff to navigate to the appropriate photo albums. You want to put these photos on your website. Following Peter's suggestion, you ask me for permission to use the photo and ask whether you should host it yourself. I say that you may not use the photo at all. You feel that it is fair use, however, because your website is a study of trends in jello wrestling poster design. So you mirror to it and attribute everything you can, according to Adi's suggestion. I actually didn't want these pictures to get out, and I was really stupid for having put them up publicly, albeit obscurely, on the internet, so I decide to sue you. If I sue you for copyright infringement, will I win? And would it be different if you'd embedded the image hosted on my server instead of mirroring it? Tom On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Peter Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > At 4:36 PM -0800 12/25/10, Parker wrote: > > am i correct in thinking that in terms of copyright and other related >> legal restrictions it's more "okay" for me to use the icon if i just >> source it in from the original author's server than if i host a copy >> on my own server? i'm guessing that the original author can have no >> > > First, I would suggest simply contacting the author to see what he/she > would > like you to do. > > Second, sourcing it from the author's server could cause bandwidth problems > there if you happen to get a lot of hits. Irrespective of copyright, that > may > be a significant problem. > > peabo > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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