FWIW, a little more about my use case: I'm making this site: http://parkcity.makesad.us/ It's super alpha happytime right now, but you get the idea. A simple meta website that links to other stuff dartmouth has on the web that can be thought of as a resource that dartmouth is generously sharing with the world. There's a whole other thread here about why I think this is the right next step for moving towards OpenCourseWare/OER at Dartmouth, but that's for another time.
The thing is, I dont have permission to use any of the images I'm using. But I need to use them. So how do I do it? Do I just hotlink? Do I copy to my own machine? Do I attribute? I'm not worried about bandwidth costs because of hotlinking because this site isn't getting any traffic yet (and dartmouth's servers can take it anyway). On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote: > This is also a great example for demonstrating how everyday users > develop simple social and technical responses to the inadequacies of > current copyright regulation. > > Hotlinking (as others mentioned) incurs bandwith and reputation costs. > In response, some people set their servers to passalong a generic > do-not-hotlink image rather than the one requested: > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hotlinking/ > > Kevin > > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 06:27:37 -0800 >> From: Nate Otto <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] question: copyright implications of >> embedding images? >> >> I think publishing someone else's image does indeed trigger copyright >> regardless of where it is hosted, and linking to the copy on their server >> further does them economic "harm" in terms of bandwidth costs, even if it >> doesn't really cost them anything extra that month. >> >> Adi was right that this is essentially a fair use question. I happen to >> believe in a more expansive vision of fair use than the limited version >> staked out so far in US courts, but the only way to expand those courts' >> definitions is consideration if more unauthorized use circumstances. Not >> that I would let a matter like this get to court, because I would probably >> be responsive to any takedown requests, formal or not. >> >> I cited a thought experiment in the first pages of my thesis >> http://ottonomy.net/portfolio/thesis showing just how much our lives bump up >> against copyright law every day. The law wasn't originally intended to apply >> to the masses like this, but copying an image is actually one of the more >> blatant offenses we might commit in everyday life. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > -- http://www.madebyparker.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
