I think the copyright issue still applies as you would be re-using the images in your service despite the BBC having licensed them.
There must be a few thumbnails associated with each news video clip - they show up in the viewer and on the website from time to time and would be more relevant to the story than a stock image. Perhaps these images could be made freely available, licensing would be less of an issue as they'd have come from a BBC source and would probably be more relevant to the actual story than some library images.
On 6/9/06, Jonathan Chetwynd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Graeme,
"a picture of a beardy man" can be used by an interested person
without reading skills to select text for a screen or text reader to
read, for example.
a feed with a link to a graphic isn't re-distribution of the graphic.
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 9 Jun 2006, at 20:17, Graeme Mulvaney wrote:
Generally the images don't belong to the BBC per se, so they can't re-
distribute them.
Besides, you'd have to question the relevance of the thumbnail images
anyway :-
How does a picture of a woman with a dodgy perm help you understand
that the NHS has agreed to fund an anti-cancer treatment ? or a
picture of a beardy man explain the situation in Iraq ?
If people had problems reading the text of the stories then those
images would only confuse them more.
On 6/9/06, Jonathan Chetwynd < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where
are the feeds with live graphics?
About One in Five people in the UK is functionally illiterate**, they
need and benefit from images.
http://www.peepo.co.uk/mybbc/grab.png is how a simple css user style
sheet can transform http://news.bbc.co.uk however for the present it
would be great if a feed could provide something similar.
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
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