8 May
2005
8 May
'05
4:37 a.m.
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 03:16 -0400, Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
There is something I don't understand.
How can you have a policy that "all the material present on the site is
absolutely freely usable" if the site includes material your users didn't
give permission to share? If I were to post information or photos on your
site, I would assume it's only for that purpose.
Personally I'd assume the opposite though - if I joined the site and put
my pictures up without any kind of copyright/use statement, anyone
should be able to use them as they see fit. (not saying that my view or
your view are wrong, just that there are different ways of looking at
it)
The bad part is if someone provides material for the site and supplies
images which aren't theirs, ripped off from other sites where a
copyright/use statement is present. As a webmaster Tix probably
doesn't / can't have much control over that - except for the reasonable
request that if someone objects to content it will be removed.
cheers
Jules