On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 16:30 +0000, Justin Cormack wrote:
Are they about to sue Google because you can display pictures of Pokmon images through Google?
Funny, someone just did.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/27/google_cache_copyright_breach_ruling...
However a brief scan suggests that our Pokemon collection would not be covered under this ruling at all.
We definitely arent covered by this case. It covers temporary cacheing with the copyright holder knowing that there is an opt out agreement.
Replying to myself, one option to get us covered under this would be to replace all our Pokemon images with offsite urls which we could then temporarily cache ourselves.
Why we actually have to download all these "fair use" images and store them (and redistribute them) when most are on websites anyway (or could be put on Pokemon fansites in countries with lax laws) is beyond me.
Why cant we support inlined or cached external images?
Obviously the links break every now and again but the armies of Pokemonnies can fix that.
Justinc