Someone used my non-copyrighted thumbnails to make some record covers...... -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peeter Vissak Sent: 15 January 2005 17:06 To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: Copyright question: re tiny thumbnails. Bob, Size is just a practical criterion on unsaleability. There has been no point to write copyright marks to tiny pics. Nobody will buy those stolen miniatures anyway. . . . until You arrived together with Andrea 8-O Lawfully Yours, Peeter >I've just started playing with a photomosaic program: >http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/ > >For this you need to accumulate access to a huge number of small (say >100-pixel max) thumbnail images. > >Is there a point (in terms of thumbnail size) at which you could >safely (without breaking copyright) use a small version of other's >pictures downloaded from the web? > >I was just thinking an easy way to harvest pictures would be to copy >all the jpgs and gifs from my Internet Explorer cache ;o) > >Bob -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.12 - Release Date: 14.01.2005