Friday, March 21, 2008

OPIP


I've corresponded with Stephanie about whether images are fair to post or not, and she has given me some direction (which I didn't like). I intended a couple of days ago (when the issue came up again) to ask her to post something about it and didn't so I am now: what can we put up? how are photos/images different from text? what is "fair use?" etc.

While I generally believe in following the law and respecting OPIP, posting a photo on SSJ seems much more like cutting out a picture in a magazine and putting it in a family scrapbook than stealing.

1 comment:

Stephanie said...

Cutting out a picture in a magazine is a use of copy of the photo that you own. You have not made a copy, and hence there's no copyright infringement.