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spitz wrote:
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> If the person was really making a website for commentary on MOCs then he
> really doesn't need permission to use the pictures. However, it is
> considered polite to ask. Posting them up on Brickshelf is another matter.
> Hard to say it was a "fair use" issue there. It can be tough to get out of
> the mindset that Brickshelf is just disk space, when it is really a public
> forum. Its just that Brickshelf works so well as disk storage for Lego images!
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> Anyway, I always feel I have to defend cases of legitimate fair use when I
> see them. Seems that more and more copyright holders feel they have
> ultimate and unalienable rights to the content they create.
A commentary site is certainly a legitimate thing, HOWEVER, copying an
entire BrickShelf folder for use on a such a site is stretching fair
use. Fair use MIGHT justify copying one picture to illustrate the
article, with a link to the BrickShelf folder for more. Using the
thumbnails might be ok (I feel I stretched things when I used folks
thumbnails in creating this page:
http://www.mindspring.com/%7Effilz/Lego/pirate-brickfest2000.html though
I did at least try to ask people before using their pictures). I did
make sure to credit the photographers, and each thumbnail is a link to
the BrickShelf page for that picture (I actually extracted the links
from the thumbnail page for the folder the pictures were in, hmm, I see
I need to talk to the Bogers and find out where their pictures are
now... they keep moving).
FUT: lugnet.publish
Frank
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