On 7/21/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 7/21/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
On 7/21/06, Mark Wagner
<carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There are two problems with letting just anybody
upload images:
1) Copyright law is very complex. Most people don't understand it.
2) Most people *aren't aware* that they don't understand it.
Isn't that a problem with letting just anybody add text, too?
Not really. I think it's a product of the public school system, but
people generally understand that taking somebody else's writing and
passing it off as their own is wrong, even if they don't understand
that it's a copyright violation. The same can't be said of images.
Wait a second, are we talking about copyright infringement,
plagiarism, or legal use of non-free content? These are three
separate problems. I thought the original post was talking about
copyright infringement, but this new post talks about "taking somebody
else's writing and passing it off as their own".
Most people don't distinguish between "plagiarism" and "copyright
infringement" when it comes to writing: the school system is very
effective at training people that simply copying the contents of the
Encyclopedia Britannica isn't an acceptable way of writing a report,
which is why we don't get very many instances of copyright violations
with text.
Images are a different matter. The most common use of pictures in
school is the collage, where students are encouraged to use pictures
from many different sources.
--
Mark
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