On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder how it works when you post a thumbnail from a link in > Facebook. Do people regularly break copyright by doing this?
Given the fact that Facebook, Google, Amazon, and others frequently use thumbnails of copyrighted material to help people identify things, I'd say that their corporate legal staffs have more or less come to the conclusion that fair use is a pretty good defense in the case of thumbnail usage. Take a look at the Google vs Perfect 10 case for a little more info on that. ([1] for example) Ryan [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Google_Inc.#Secondary_infringement _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
