[Cob] copyright

[Jon Kerr]

 >Not to mention that he's using an awful lot of copyrighted images.  
Does he have permission to republish them?

Brina

Here's a little selection from http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html. 
Google the term Fair Use and any number of good bits come up. 
Admittedly, this isn't going to come up very often in the Cob 
discussion mailing list, but we citizens DO need to be better informed 
of our rights and jealously guard them from the corporate slimeballs 
that are trying to strip us of every penny.

"Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the 
reproduction of a particular work may be considered “fair,” such as 
criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and 
research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in 
determining whether or not a particular use is fair:

    1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use 
is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
    2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
    3. amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the 
copyrighted work as a whole; and
    4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of 
the copyrighted work."


So the teaching, scholarship and research provisions cover the uses the 
photos in the survey were put to.

Jon


=================================================
"There's no limit to what can be accomplished with an infinite number 
of monkeys."  --Paraphrase from David Brin's The Uplift War

http://www.visi.com/~jonskerr     <*>     O~