As a practical matter, that will be decided on a case-by-case basis. I frankly doubt that any judge would agree that 95% of the original size is a 'thumbnail', or even 50%. And I doubt that the issue will come up, as the search engines like to show as many images as are reasonably viewable in thumbnail size.
Maris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Waterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:27 PM Subject: Re: Photos and Rights | On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:08:36 -0600 | "Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > I'm not justifying it world wide, only saying that under U.S. law the thumbnails |(and only the thumbnails) are legal. | > | > If the law is different in Canada and/or Australia, you and Rob Studdert certainly |have the right to request Lycos to remove thumbnails of your images from their server |and if they refuse to file suit and obtain a different result. I agree that if it is |illegal under Canadian law or Australian law then it is theft. | | My problem with all this would be that there seems to no indication of what |constitutes a thumbnail image.. | If I were to use an image by Rob Studert and "thumbnail" it to say, 95% of its |original size.... | | Kevin | - | This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, | go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to | visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . | - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
