I find this copyright issue somewhat timely, and definitely ironic. In December, my website marked its third "anniversary" on the Net; so it was time to make some minor format revisions and image updates. One of those changes included the removal of nearly a dozen copyright notices that accompanied most of the images on the site. I thought maybe I was being a bit paranoid and was carrying this copyright business to an extreme --- now, I an not so sure.
As I explained to some people last fall, during the past three years, there have been a lot requests directed to my website for a variety of information on railroads and motive power -- from finding injectors for 567 c.i.d marine engines to checking old builder plate data to researching the whereabouts of old diesels. It is fun and gratifying on those occasions when I have been able to help. And, it is in the same spirit that I post images to the website -- it is a means of giving something back to this hobby which I have enjoyed for the past 36 years. However, I expect appropriate credit to be given, and I reserve the right to determine when and how my images are used --- unless of course specific permission has been given. R. Craig Rutherford "Don't shoot til you see the whites of their number boards!"- R. Craig (RS27) http://www.ole.net/~rcraig -> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs
