Saturday, December 6, 2008

Copyright

Web sites are made for information sharing not info stealing. All of the content—stories, pictures, graphics, illustrations—are copy written.

In fact, the SunSentinel asks users to fill out a form to reproduce any of its stories. Not sure how many people actually do that, though, as you must click through several layers of stuff to get to the “request permission to reprint” form.

In this copy-and-paste World, it would be a lot easier to highlight the story and just copy it into whatever Web site you want. Then download the picture.

Most of this stuff is not in the public domain, so it’s kind of like ripping music from Web site. That’s stealing, just like the PSA’s by Brittany Spears and other artists say.

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