I guess the rules are, that you can qoute but not publish entire articles or test sheets without permission. A pluasible course might be to simply qoute the final grade or score - after asking the magazsine for permission to publish it. BTW - German FOTOmagazin has it own test facilities and is worth lookiing at too. In some magazines these test scores are actually used by the manufacturers/sellers when advertising the lenses, cameras etc.
Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Mark Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 20. februar 2006 01:42 Til: 'pentax-discuss' Emne: Fair use, intimidation, and copyright (was Re: Pentax lenses tests from Chasseur d'Images) This thread reminds me of something that happened a few years ago. Klaus Schroiff of the Photozone website (www.photozone.de) used to have a wonderful compilation of lens tests. His tables included ratings from Color Foto, Popular Photography, and Chasseur d'Image magazines and included pretty much every Pentax lens that was current at the time and most of the third party offerings. Fair use or not, I believe that one or more of the magazines threatened him into pulling the list off of the web. So it looks to me like the photography magazines are as "tweaky" about their product (lens ratings) as the lens makers are about theirs (the lenses themselves). By the way, I think that "fair use" is a concept specific to United States copyright law and legal precedent. What are the rules in Europe? --Mark -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.11/264 - Release Date: 02/17/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.11/264 - Release Date: 02/17/2006
