HS0ZCW wrote: > > > The status of copyright on open sites on the Web are a good question. The > old (prior to Internet) rule was easy.... any work given away to the > public lost its copyright protection. Example: a poet hands out copies of > his poetry to public on a street corner. He loses his copyright then and > there. I think the same applies to open sites where all the material is > offered "free" to the public... that is, no payment back to the > originator. The attachment of the C in a circle and the correct words of > Copyright, name, and date, may provide some protection, but even then the > excerpt taken must be substantial and not trivial (usually determined by > shortness or length of excerpt). Citation of the original in short bits of > the original likely also cover the possibly offending user. Basically, > anything on the Web in open public sites can be used with very small > danger of legal action against the copier-person. Further, the original > owner must often prove MEASURABLE damages from the copying.... not easy in > many cases. Consult your lawyer. 73 Charles Harpole [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have "Copyright © 1998 - 2007 Julian Moss, G4ILO" in the footer of every page of my website. But this is mainly to discourage blatant rip-offs of my material. Some people have copied whole articles from my site, and even linked direct to the images. I really don't have an issue with a fellow hobbyist using pictures from my site (though an email asking permission would be a nice courtesy) but direct linking to files really annoys me because it uses my bandwidth which costs me money.
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