#Picture rights
3 messages in this thread
I noticed the message about possesion sufficient rights to post materials
in the libs. I have digitized some really neat photos from pictures in
Aviation Week. Am I permitted to uplead them? I must have missed a message
thread somewhere….
Douglas,
The proof of distributability is up to the uploader. If you wanted to
make sure you had the right to distribute digitized pictures from Aviation
Week magazine you would have to contact Aviation Week and ask them for
their position on the matter.
-sja
Most people, it seems, are uploading material that has been published
elsewhere first. There is, interestingly, an issue of "substantial
changes" which, if applicable, makes YOUR version copyrightable in its own
right, even if you ripped if off of somewhere else. Digital reproduction
and issues of artistic ethics have collided and the courts have been awash
with the waves from it all. If you do not intend to add your own touch to
the work, be safe and credit the source somewhere in your file. I doubt
they would make a big deal of it. CIS is certainly not responsible
themselves, I can bet you. Ken Loss-Cutler