Guys, This may be helpful to some RE fair use of images: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm#qa see this too: http://creativecommons.org/ Seems to me that no art let alone science could get done with strict adherance to copyright. There is much truth in the belief that only the corporate world gains by owning ideas. The nutty thing is that copyright is not evenly protected across different media. You can quote my writing but not my song - guess who screams loudest about "sampling"? AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 2nd ed. NOW SHIPPING http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: Copyright question: re tiny thumbnails. > From: "Chris" <nimbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, January 16, 2005 5:30 pm > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > 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
