RE: Intellectual Property

["Drummond Howard" <drummondhoward at hotmail_com>]

Just to add a couple of comments to the issue:


>From: "Brian R. Watters" <bwatters at sk_sympatico.ca>
>tours and safaris. This image was taken from the AKA site and was displayed
>on their site with the lower part of the image truncated so that my
>copyright notice was very conveniently removed.

I am starting to see copyright notices across the images.  While it obscures 
the image, it prevents the cropping to remove it.

photo it
> > would be absolutely wrong! Agreed! But what if I attached a link
> > to the AKA
> > web site where your picture is found? Different methodology same
> > net effect.
> >
>
>In my opinion, linking to the AKA site is fine but linking directly to any
>of my images is not.

At lease they are not removing the copyright notice and/or photo credit!
Kind of a gray area.


> > But I do maintain that the internet is not a book or magazine.
>
>I strongly disagree; I see no fundamental difference with regard to
>intellectual property rights.

I have to agree with Brian on this, it is electronic publishing.  Just ask 
the Washington Post or New York Times if their web sites are any different 
from a copyright point of view from their paper versions.
I'm sure they would spend a great deal of money and time in court to 
convience you otherwise.

Drummond Haward
Gaithersburg, MD


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