On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Mark Roberts wrote:
> Furthermore, my beef with them isn't the indexing itself but the
> fact that they're creating illegal thumbnail *copies* of my photos
> and storing them on their own hard drives. This is a copyright
> violation no matter what some dimwitted judge found in a previous
> lawsuit. (Needs to be taken to a higher court, IMHO).
I understand you might be pissed, but what exactly is the damage you
suffer by someone making tiny 100-pixel wide thumbnails of your
images?
Yahoo also puts ads in their text search results, so you could argue
that they are making money by linking to your pages.
Of course, the thumbnails should link to the html page that contains
the original image, and not to the image file itself. If this were
true, you're just getting exposure, which is actually good. I tend to
share the views of my friend Dan Heller, who has a pretty open
attitude towards the use of his images. Read
http://www.danheller.com/ep-webuse.html to see what I mean.
I'm just playing devil's advocate here. I understand that copyright is
something that you have to enforce in order to keep owning, but I just
think that maybe having a big search engine provide an index of
images, that prospective customers can use to get to your pages, is a
good thing.
j
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