- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:39:36 -0500
- To: "jonathan chetwynd" <jay@peepo.com>, "Silas S. Brown" <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>, <jay@peepo.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
The image publishing industry and the web consumer industry are going to fight this one out and we get to live with the answer. Copyright law is inconsistent, insufficient, and about to change in this area. Using a URI in your document which identifies an image which someone else has published to the web without access restrictions falls under the "just use" realm just like putting a citation for someone else's journal article in your bibliography. They serve the image, you haven't copied and served it. This is a consumer opinion, not a legal opinion. The W3C proposal for how people will learn things like copy permissions on images is via the Resource Description Framework, or RDF. Are you concerned about being sued for your use of other's images, or concerned to protect images that you develop? Al At 11:24 AM 3/14/99 +0000, jonathan chetwynd wrote: >> img src ="http://www.... > >How about 3 degrees > >1 img src = for images that are freely copyable > >2 inl src = for images to which the creator would prefer inline >references to be used, (not to be printed). > >3 cop src = for images that are only to be cached > >How would one get this implemented? > >jay@peepo.com >SignBrowser >
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