RE: copyright violation - what to do?

My first site (years ago) was a personal project describing books and music
(www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/index.htm). Since I planned to quote material
and use images scanned from the originals, I contacted every single
publisher. More than two dozen contacts. None responded. What to do? I went
ahead, and the site has been up for years without complaint. But just to be
safe, I kept copies of my outgoing correspondence, and I suggest anyone on
this path do the same.

Keith Purtell, Web/Network Administrator

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-----Original Message-----

Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:31:04 -0500 (EST)
From: jim barchuk <jb(at)jbarchuk.com>
Subject: Re: copyright violation - what to do?

Hi Brandon!

> "Copyright in the articles available at this site is owned by their
> author(s). Trademarks used on this site to describe firms and their
products
> are trademarks of those firms or the registered proprietor of the
> trademark."

Regardless. Copyright by the author is inherent upon publishing. Period.
International law. Here's a quote from an *NZ* site so I think I can
safely assume they support the law. :)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,0a8,FF.html

Further, if Lois' site carries a standard copyright by/date notice and
better yet a further statement about 'you may not copy anything from this
site' then it is *absolutely* *100%* *wrong* to copy anything without
explicit written permission. *Period*.

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