Kurisu/Chris have you received permission to reproduce this book wholesale on here? If not, surely this is an infringement of copyright? Lovely as these pages are to look at, I am asking - and this is a genuine question out of curiosity - because if I were the author, photographer or publisher I would not be happy.
Many of us upload a screen grab of a paragraph from a book or occasionally copy a photo or text from the internet on here (including me) and I’m not even sure of the legalities of that. Most of us do at least credit the author/artist/source but whether that’s enough to legitimise doing so, again I really don’t know..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
No, I haven’t received permission to reproduce. However, before I posted, I did ask for members advice first in another thread. Nobody seemed to think it would be a problem. I also thought mods would take it down or lock the thread after my first few posts if it was. I also tried to search for forum rules on this first but couldn’t find any.
Hi, many thanks Chris. I asked because I recently posted a couple of screen grabs from someone’s online blog, then thought oops, should I have done that?! The mods would only take down a thread if people flagged it, but that facility is to report abusive/offensive content, which yours clearly isn’t!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Sorry Chris, I feel like a right spoil sport now for asking the question! Some guidance from the site would’ve been very helpful. Don’t suppose there is a copyright lawyer lurking among the forum members?!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Kurisu/Chris have you received permission to reproduce this book wholesale on here? If not, surely this is an infringement of copyright? Lovely as these pages are to look at, I am asking - and this is a genuine question out of curiosity - because if I were the author, photographer or publisher I would not be happy.
I wondered about this too @Nollie. Looking at the site Terms and Conditions, under the heading Intellectual Property Rights, this paragraph seems to support your thoughts:
(c) you will not collect, obtain, compile, gather, transmit, reproduce, delete, revise, view or display any material, data or information, whether personally identifiable or not, posted by or concerning any other person, firm or enterprise, in connection with your user Contribution or in connection with your use of our Services, unless you have obtained the express, prior permission of such other person (or their parent or guardian if such other person is under 16), firm or enterprise to do so.
(Ooops, you could say that I've just reproduced this without the owner's express permission!)
Sorry Chris, I feel like a right spoil sport now for asking the question! Some guidance from the site would’ve been very helpful. Don’t suppose there is a copyright lawyer lurking among the forum members?!
Don’t worry, I didn’t think that. This forum is run a little differently from other Forums I am on, and I presumed someone would jump in very quickly to stop any infringement. Because no one did, I rather naively assumed it would be OK. Bit silly, but not much I can do now that I can’t get a response. I will be more careful in future.
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No, I haven’t received permission to reproduce. However, before I posted, I did ask for members advice first in another thread. Nobody seemed to think it would be a problem. I also thought mods would take it down or lock the thread after my first few posts if it was. I also tried to search for forum rules on this first but couldn’t find any.
Cheers,
Chris
(c) you will not collect, obtain, compile, gather, transmit, reproduce, delete, revise, view or display any material, data or information, whether personally identifiable or not, posted by or concerning any other person, firm or enterprise, in connection with your user Contribution or in connection with your use of our Services, unless you have obtained the express, prior permission of such other person (or their parent or guardian if such other person is under 16), firm or enterprise to do so.
(Ooops, you could say that I've just reproduced this without the owner's express permission!)