On 1/25/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2007, at 9:50 PM, geni wrote:
That differes from our copyright policy how?
Our copyright policy is mostly intuitive,
False.
It includes elements of law so beautifully complex in their
construction that a lifetime of study would hardly scratch the surface
and can be explained in a
sentence in such a way that an average person can understand it. It's
slightly trickier with images, but only slightly since we've been
cracking down pretty hard on "fair use" of late.
You have no idea do you? You really have no idea.
wil still have 100Ks of "fair use" images. Will have stuff under very
complex areas of copyright law and downright insane ones.
Do you know what the copyright status of Works of the Philippines
government really are? Image scans made in the UK? engravings under
crown copyright?
Did you follow the PD soviet debate?
The average person doesn't have a hope in Hades and we are forever
playing catchup.
Copyvio is not
nearly as widespread as lack of sourcing. Copyvio is not a newbie-
unfriendly concept.
Oh but it is. oh but it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_unknown_copyright_status
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_no_copyright_tag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_unknown_source
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geni