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19 Oct 15
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In any of these media, the fact that something is physically easy to copy something does not mean that it is legal to copy it, or morally acceptable to copy it.
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nless it happens that the webmaster is in fact the owner of all rights in the work you wish to copy. Can you be sure the work was not copied (in an unauthorized manner) from someplace else? If not, then permission from the webmaster does not put you in the clear.
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Under US law, for example, even if the copyright owner has not given permission, it is still okay to copy something so long as the copying falls within what is called "fair use". Regrettably for those who are eager to copy things, it is not easy to say for sure what is or is not fair use.
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Legal factors that are taken into account include: the portion of a work being copied (copying a small portion is more likely to be fair use than copying a large portion); the effect of the copying on the market for the item being copied (if the copying activity makes people less likely to buy the item, then the copying is unlikely to be fair use); and the use to which the copied matter is put (quoting for use in literary criticism or for educational purposes is more likely to be fair use than some other uses).
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why not just put in a link to the place
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"implied license".
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he safest course of action is to obtain permission from the copyright owner before posting a scanned image into your web site.
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Clearly the safest course is to avoid the use of IMG references
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"may I freely set up HREF links in my web site, to the web sites of others?" As will be clear in a moment, the short answer to that question is "yes".
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A person who steadfastly objects to any and all HREF links to his or her web site is missing the point of the World Wide Web.
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"click here to reach a web site of chronic liars".
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To this the answer we offer is this: If you are quite confident that you are not doing anything wrong in setting up a non-framed HREF link, then you probably are not doing anything wrong. Millions of HREF links have been set up in the World Wide Web, and the sky has not fallen and common sense has prevailed. Nonetheless, if you have any misgiving or doubt about a particular link, then the ethical thing to do is to write to the webmaster and ask if there is any objection. This will give the webmaster an opportunity to view the page containing the link, and to consider whether there is any reason to object to it.
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he first question would be, why do you care?
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But generally unless there is some special reason to the contrary, you should be pleased if someone sets up a regular (non-framed HREF) link to your web site
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26 Oct 14
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