On 17 April 2017 at 00:50, Roland Hughes <rol...@logikalsolutions.com> wrote: > Andre', > > I live in America where only the organized crime family known as Google is > allowed to commit copyright infringement with wanton abandonment. > > Copyright has many international treaties which in many/most cases means > each country involved in the treaty agrees to honor and respect the > copyright laws of the other. This means it doesn't matter what the copyright > laws are in _your_ country only what the copyright laws are in the country > of the copyright owner if and only if both countries share a copyright > treaty. Here is a link to partial information: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_copyright_agreements > > I say it is partial because trademark and copyright law is almost always > part of trade deals. The trade deal which moved a huge amount of computer > chip production to Taiwan included such protections. The chip fabrication > work would not move there without it. > > Putting it bluntly, the average schmoe cannot honestly determine which set > of copyright law governs which work when the copyright holder is not the > ever immortal "public domain." Just because it is "on the Web" doesn't mean > it is free to take and use any way you want, despite the criminal activity > of Google. You don't have Google's bank account for the purchase of judges > and public officials. > > There are common practices which can avoid all major copyright infringement > issues.
Stop spreading FUD! We don't need your biased opinion on the matter, go home and take your pills! Chris > > 1) Only link to it, never copy it to any form of media in a non-mangled > usable form. > > 2) Never give the impression it is yours. > > 3) Always provide a link back to it, preferably to the page which contains > it, but some image repos only have galleries. > > 4) Where possible give credit to copyright holder or the source you linked > to. (Most news outlets purchase printing rights of images from photographers > through services so in many cases you can only say something like "this > photo in USA Today January 27, 1994..." > > In general, this is the currently acceptable common courtesy/practice. > > > On 04/16/2017 06:16 AM, André Pönitz wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 08:56:18AM -0500, Roland Hughes wrote: > > And some 12 year old kid will do a Web search, find the interest archive > messages then do exactly that. Once they release their app into the wild > they will be in all kinds of legal trouble. That is why I chimed in. These > posts live forever at various places on the Internet. From a technical > perspective it is very easy to fetch an image, write it to a local file, > then load it for display. Legally, not-so-much. > > Can you please qualify your statements with the jurisdiction you > are personally interested/are forced|choose to live in/whatever? > This might help people to set a suitable filter. > > Fortunately, there are still places in the world where 12 year > olds are allowed to behave as 12 year olds (and worst case bring > their parents into trouble...) > > Andre' > > > -- > Roland Hughes, President > Logikal Solutions > (630)-205-1593 > > http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com > http://www.infiniteexposure.net > http://www.johnsmith-book.com > http://www.logikalblog.com > http://www.interestingauthors.com/blog > http://lesedi.us/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
