[geeks] Internet Legal Issues

Joshua D Boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Sep 10 23:07:42 CDT 2001


On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:55:50AM +0000, wa2egp at att.net wrote:
> I'm no lawyer but maybe you could put some type 
> of "copyright" notice on your material.  "All text and 
> images on this site can only be used with written 
> permission....".  He has used your image without 
> permission which would be illegal use under photographic 
> law but since you put them up on your website, this 
> might not work, but that notice might give you more 
> legal ground.  Personally, I know a few perople that 
> could "visit" the individual.  A perk for living in 

Again, no lawyer, but my understanding was that putting a pic on your web
site doesn't make it any more public domain than publishing it in a fairly
wide spread news letter does.  But, I could be wrong.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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