I wonder how it works when you post a thumbnail from a link in Facebook. Do people regularly break copyright by doing this?
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Nate Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > I think your best bet is to host the images yourself, attribute, etc., so > you don't leach anybody's bandwidth. You are triggering copyright, but > that's educational Fair Use for sure. You can read through the summaries of > the various tests at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use but I think > you'll find that essentially quoting from the educational material available > for the purpose of spreading awareness doesn't look bad under any of them. > -Nate > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Parker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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). >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
