Re: Copyright infringement

[ME Tyler <MTyler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob, etal,
 What this guy did is not to link to a web PAGE but directly
to the IMAGE and without any indication that the image was
from another source. This made it appear that the image was
his. Unless you read his HTML code to see if anything was
not on the original computer, you would not know that the
image was procured from another source.
 Linking to another web page (homepage is best) is
commonplace on the net. It would be very easy for this guy
to just say something like "click here to see what __xx__
did with his 202 camera". Linking to just an image is NOT an
open way to refer someone to an interesting web site.
Just my opinion,
Marshall

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Bob_Maxey@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:  (in part)
> 
> >> I noticed that your web page includes links to images which
> > are not yours. While links to other pages on the web are
> > often a nice way to promote someone else's web page, failing
> > to include an introductory line as to the fact that the
> > viewer is about to access someone else's web page AND
> > bypassing their opening page AND just using their image is
> > not only poor web mannors but a violation of copyright.
> 
> There have been a number of cases already over the issue of Links. Linking
> to items on a web page is generally accepted and many books on web design
> explain the process of creating page links, as do many page generation
> software packages. Linking is not something I generally do, as I can't be
> sure that the page I link to will be there. I do use them occasionally,
> though.
> 
> The idea that simply linking to a page is infringement of copyright is
> still up in the air and not so simple. I can see it being an issue if you
> specifically state that you do not want anyone linking to your page, but so
> what. You can't prevent it and since you are aware that anyone can link to
> you, you loose any right to use Infringement as a basis for a case.
> 
> As far as adding some introductory line, this is not needed. You can easily
> tell from reading the URL if it links to another page. Also, anyone on the
> Internet for any amount of time understands that a line that is underlined
> and has http:// prefacing it, is a link.
> 

> Bob Maxey