If you feel it's fair use, attribute as much as possible... whether that means linking to her server or caption attribution or both.
-Adi On Dec 26, 2010 4:37 AM, "Parker" <[email protected]> wrote: > quick question about copyright law and image embedding: > say i want to include an image in my webpage. suppose it's an icon, > but something pretty generic (so that we can avoid trademark > considerations). suppose i saw it on someone else's site--the site of > the person who made it. > > am i correct in thinking that in terms of copyright and other related > legal restrictions it's more "okay" for me to use the icon if i just > source it in from the original author's server than if i host a copy > on my own server? i'm guessing that the original author can have no > copyright claim against me if i just source it in from her server > because i haven't actually made a copy myself, and furthermore there's > some degree of implicit attribution in the source code. Is this true? > > I'm also guessing that with a certain class of image she would have a > trademark claim against me, but i'm not sure.... > > -- > http://www.madebyparker.com > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
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