Re: Posting photographs Technique and Copyright


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Posted by PeterH on November 30, 2006 at 21:44:43 from 86.130.130.192 user Peter_H.

In Reply to: Re: Posting photographs Technique and Copyright posted by Mike Field on November 30, 2006 at 20:43:19:

If the image is on the original owner's website it's in the public domain. Linking to it is no more infringing copyright than is telling someone about a book its author gave you.

Care is needed here. In the UK, the term 'public domain' is not used in the copyright legislation, and it is accepted that images on a website are still copyright of the photographer. If you log on to Lakelandcam, you can see that Tony Richards has reserved all rights, although he generously, and realistically, allows downloading for private use, provided you credit him with the photograph or you link to his Lakelandcam pages. I would maintain that the safe way to link is to post a non-visual link via a URL, and not a 'direct' link, ie using HTML. Although the latter is technically not 'copying', it is in a grey area and I think is better avoided. I think that Tony would not be too pleased if his photos started being pasted directly into TarBoard (or any other website) postings without acknowledgment and via invisible linkage.


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