Dear list,
I haven't seen this item mentioned yet and when I did, I thought of the
current content/copyright discussion.
"Sir John Sulston, Nobel prize winner and one of the architects of the
Human Genome Project, has teamed up with Bloomsbury to edit a new series
of books that will look at
illustrators and asked for permission, always getting a kind reply with "yes".
Best regards,
Jan Nielsen
> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 01:27:13 -0400
> From: d...@fuzzo.com
> Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] stealing from websites; educational use
> To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
>
&
copied or stolen. But if
there is no real loss involved, I am not very sympathetic, and I also think
that when a copy is properly acknowledged, they benefit even if they did not
give prior authorisation.
Bill Silvert
----- Original Message - From: "Jane Shevtsov"
To:
Sent: Thurs
True, however, if you do not a fix it, you can place yourself at risk
of losing your claim do to "innocent infringement"
An innocent infringer is someone who has authored a work which
infringes a prior protected work, but where the author did not realize
he/she was infringing the protected work. Th
Note that the segment of the Copyright Act does NOT say that things
posted without said notice are "technically open for use by anyone."
The bottom line, if you can SEE it, you should assume it is copyrighted,
unless you know it to be in the public domain.
Dave
malcolm McCallum wrote:
copyri
copyrighted? yes. but read:
Chapter 4, section 401 of the current US copyright law. regarding visually
perceptible copies, specifically part (d) where it discusses evidentiary
weight of the notice. If you have it, the person who uses it w/o permission
has virtually no defense in a court case (if
WT
"They tell us we are wasting TIME--but we are wasting our LIVES!" --Eric
Hoffer
- Original Message -
From: "David Duffy"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] stealing from websites
Save the web! steal this picture?
The web was
also of course photos are often the
>> primary data in studies of these animals.
>>
>> I respect the rights of those who expect to profit from their work and who
>> lose out when their photos or other materials are copied or stolen. But if
>> there is no real loss in
just to add to Bob's comment about flickr, you can also use the Creative
Commons search engine (which is really a portal to many search engines,
including flickr) http://search.creativecommons.org/
With flickr it's much easier to get fast and correct results, since it has
CC built right into it...
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acknowledged, they benefit even if they did not give prior authorisation.
Bill Silvert
- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Shevtsov"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] stealing from websites
Jim,
Please note that what follows is meant mainly as a gene
Two quick corrections
malcolm McCallum wrote:
> Anything that is posted on the internet without
>
> Copyright (c) YEAR. NAME OF COPYRIGHT HOLDER.
>
> is technically open for use by anyone. I got this directly from the
> copyright office a few years back.
Must have been quite a few: changes to
d have become a successful writer and
editor.
Bill Silvert
- Original Message -
From: "David M. Lawrence"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] stealing from websites
Now I'll argue the opposite of what I posted the other day :) While I am
la
I apologize for getting into this late and not reading all the previous
posts, but has anyone considered that any photograph taken as a result
of work funded by public dollars (grants, University salaries) would be
/ should be public domain? Your tax dollar at work? Credits would be
appropria
malcolm McCallum wrote:
> Most figures from textbooks are now open use at the textbook
companies push.
> they were spending a lot getting and keeping records of permissions
> and gave up some years ago.
> Anything that is posted on the internet without
>
> Copyright (c) YEAR. NAME OF COPYRIGHT H
What is meant by "stealing" and by the "ownership"?
It depends on the author of the original photo or illustration, and even on
the author's institution.
I considered a courtesy to ask whether or not I could use a scan of a
picture from the published book in my PowerPoint presentation and the aut
ympathetic, and I
also think that when a copy is properly acknowledged, they benefit even
if they did not give prior authorisation.
Bill Silvert
- Original Message - From: "Jane Shevtsov"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] stealing
Most figures from textbooks are now open use at the textbook companies push.
they were spending a lot getting and keeping records of permissions
and gave up some years ago.
Anything that is posted on the internet without
Copyright (c) YEAR. NAME OF COPYRIGHT HOLDER.
is technically open for use by
MaryBeth Voltura wrote:
I would be interested in the list's opinion of this type of project, and
how best to allow students to create interesting and educational
websites without violating fair use of images. Obviously, they are not
going to be able to obtain their own pictures of red kangaroos
This semester, I had students in my physiological ecology course create
websites as a class project. They chose an animal and an environmental
stressor, and discussed the physiological mechanisms the species has to
handle the stressor. They presented information on natural history, and
also resul
Shevtsov"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] stealing from websites
Jim,
Please note that what follows is meant mainly as a general discussion
of intellectual property, not of your particular case.
"Why would you think that you can use my hard work wit
I would not have a problem with someone using my images that were related to
my research. However, since I have a photography business on the side, I
would not be pleased to see my photos used without acknowledgement. I think
this is mostly an issue with print media - even organizations such as
Na
Jim,
Please note that what follows is meant mainly as a general discussion
of intellectual property, not of your particular case.
"Why would you think that you can use my hard work without asking?"
For the same reason you can cite or quote a paper of mine without
asking -- even if you're using i
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