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Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:08:50 GMT
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CJC@spamlessNEWSGUY.COM
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> Instead of embedding images hosted on other peoples' servers, people should
> link to the other peoples' web pages -- or make a local copy of the image
> they want (presumably with permission from the copyright owner) and host it
> on their own homepage (on geocities or the auction site or wherever). Note:
> I don't own the copyright on the LEGO images, so don't ask me for permission
> to copy it; use your own judgment as governed by TLG's "Fair Play" policy.
Just to make sure, since you don't open the copyright on the LEGO
images listed on Lugnet you don't have a problem with me downloading
them, then hosting them on a machine of my own, right? Not asking you
for permission, I'm just asking for clarification that you aren't
going to be angered by what I do.
I have always downloaded and rehosted the images I've used on my eBay
and other auctions.
> Probably both will happen -- first the short-term solution and later the
> long-term solution. I'm not going to personally write everyone who's doing
> unauthorized linking (I don't think they deserve any warning, anyway); this
> message serves as the only "notice" to freeloaders...
Good for you. No reason you should be paying for the bandwidth,
especially since they're making money off it.
--
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| (...) You got it! I don't own the copyright to any of the LEGO images that TLG has created -- I'm just hosting them as part of an informational database for LEGO enthusiasts online (subject to my interpretation of TLG's "Fair Play" policy*). So even (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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