On 16/01/2009, at 8:40 PM, yuri wrote:
2009/1/16 Christopher Sawtell wrote:
imho, ( and I'm not a lawyer ) you are making a specialised index
to images
on the web. Not copies of the images. Google do that every day by
the tens of
millions. They have no legal problems, so why should you? After all
what is
good for the Corporate is also good for the Little Fellow, because
we live
under a Common Law jurisdiction.
In theory, yes.
In practice, we live under the Golden Rule:
ie. those who have the gold make the rules.
This is especially true with regard to copyright law.
Actually, Christopher is correct both in theory and practice, at least
in New Zealand. Copyright applies to works, and an index is a new work
which happens to make other works easier to search. It's not a
derivative of those other works.
-jasper
