Re:

Glynis,
 I have found a document that talks about this,
http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~terjen/pub/webip/950220.html
and here
http://cavern.uark.edu/comminfo/www/copyright.html

These pages have some good information about copy right laws.
Cheers

Charles

At 04:07 PM 2/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>I have been following this thread with amusement after the advice about the
>black box.  That was a good one :-)  However after reading this one I
couldn't
>just sit back and watch.  The statement "If you publish ANYTHING on the net,
>it means it's free and that people can copy it at will" is far from being
>true.  This implies that an author, designer or photographer who wishes to
>place their artwork on the Internet is automatically giving a
>free-for-all-to-take and do as they wish with it.  No way, no how.
>
>Unfortunately there are those out there who believe in this "free for all"
>because it's published on the Internet.  In doing volunteer work at a nearby
>high school, we enforce in the students that the copyright law does hold true
>on the World Wide Web and one can not just click and save an image to use on
>their own Web site, in advertisement, etc. (unless of course they have
>permission to do so from the author.)  I've seen too many law suits in
regards
>to the WWW and the big (and small operations) are not holding back on going
>after those who infringe on copyright laws . . . which is very much
>justified.  Is stealing someone's designs, photos and other artwork worth the
>destruction of your name, business and reputation?
>
>Read up on it at http://www.hwg.org/resources/business/copyright.html.
>
>Digimarc at http://www.digimarc.com  is the best I've seen so far in securing
>your images from the "clickers".  Many businesses have used it to track down
>their images on the Internet which are being used without their permission.
>
>--
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