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Re: OFF TOPIC - Photographic Copyright on the WWW

To: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <lundgren@iname.com>
Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - Photographic Copyright on the WWW
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:23:54 -0400
"Andrew B. Lundgren" wrote:
> 
> I agree that it is your image, but unfortunately by putting it on the web
> in reality you make it fair game to the world.

  Untrue.

  It does make it "easy pickin's" for a copyright infringment,
but it is FAR from the same as making it public domain.

> Your cached copy in your web browser can even be considered
> an infringement.

  No, because one is an abuse, one is a use.

  Much like buying a music CD and listening to it in
your CD player, versus making copies of a friend's CD
and playing them.

-- 
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/

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