WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 1/14/2009 12:33:41 AM Pacific Standard Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:
This does not square with copyright law in any way. It's also arguable morally, given their clear and blatant attempts to enclose the public domain.>>
Copyright and Credit are two seperate items. We need to discuss them seperately. You don't Credit the Copyright holder. You Credit your source, which may or may not be a copyright holder.
You credit where *you* got it from. You even "Credit" public domain sources such as "the Monroe County courthouse" which holds no copyrights on anything whatsoever.
"Credit" doesn't need to know who holds the copyright, you are merely stating what your own source was. "Credit" has nothing to do with "Law", it has to do with "Normal scholarly citation methods"
You are only right to a limited extent. While it makes sense to say that a given picture was from the Corbis archives, acknowledging only that reinforces the notion that they have the proper copyrights. If Corbis fails to give proper credit to its source that fact too needs to be noted.
Ec