"Juan J. Buhler" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Mark Roberts wrote:
>
> > Furthermore, my beef with them isn't the indexing itself but the
> > fact that they're creating illegal thumbnail *copies* of my photos
> > and storing them on their own hard drives. This is a copyright
> > violation no matter what some dimwitted judge found in a previous
> > lawsuit. (Needs to be taken to a higher court, IMHO).
>
> I understand you might be pissed, but what exactly is the damage you
> suffer by someone making tiny 100-pixel wide thumbnails of your
> images?
Personally I think the 'fair use' criterion will stand up in court, too.
If it's OK to excerpt a sentence or two of a book or article, I believe
that a thumbnail of an image will be adjudged permissible under the law.
The issue of "deep linking" directly to the image, bypassing all your
frames, descriptions, etc. is a different issue, which I will leave.
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