[meteorite-list] Image Copyright (was: Look at this greatauction!)

[Jim Strope]

That is not the issue.

The issue is that it was a direct link to my website.  So everytime the 
auction was loaded and the photo shown, MY bandwidth was charged not his.

Jim Strope
421 Fourth Street
Glen Dale, WV  26038

http://www.catchafallingstar.com


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> The copyright issue notwithstanding, has he asked Jim to use it?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Herbert Raab" <hraab2006 at aon.at> To: <meteorite-list at 
> meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 3:55 PM Subject: 
> Re: [meteorite-list] Image Copyright (was: Look at this greatauction!)
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>>> I linked the image from a website. It was a copyright free bw
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>>> image and I didn't suspect the site owner didn't like image linking...
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>> Is there really no copyright on these images? One can't assume that,
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>> just because its a "old" black and white image, there is no copyright
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>> on it.
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>> Russia joined the Berne Convention in 1995, so I assume the image
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>> is copyrighted for the life time of the author plus 70 years. As far as
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>> I know, this is also valid for works that were created before 1995.
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>> So, even if the photograpger died immediately after the Sikhote Alin
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>> impact, the copyright would not expire before 2017...
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>> Cheers,
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>> Herbert
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