To make it faster to load and read,
I made a page for each "case":
Introduction
Copyright and copywrong
"Web piracy"
The N.E.T. Act in the United States
The Church of Scientology cases
The Shetland News hyperlink case
"The day the sites went out in Georgia"
The Digital Object Identifier
Music copyright on the Internet
Are they coming to take me away?
The most recent case
concerning journalists, January 1998
Webography (references)
Procedure (what I did)
Now, what about the image that I quite happily put on my home page, knowing that it most likely was not strictly legal?
For the careful copyright violator, there is no apparent risk for a lawsuit--or even discovery. The most common unauthorized object on web pages is probably an image, and because almost every web site contains images it would be hard to search the net for one's copyrighted images without knowing where they are. For music there is a higher risk, since music files are fewer and the MusicBot(tm) might be coming around for an unexpected visit.
But as soon as a company knows that there is an illegally copied image on a certain location, there is a much greater possibility for trouble. If the copier also is making money from the illegal copies, there will be trouble. So if I would like the page to be widely known, I had better find another picture to put there. A legal picture. Or I could find out how to have the page get the picture from a legal site...
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