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Originally Posted by bigmojo5
Al generously has posted some of his photos for us to enjoy on indianaopenwheel.com. Copying those images even for ourselves is theft. Most people do not realize that what is copyrighted is the actual image, not the physical reproduction of that image.
How many people on this board have copied Al's photos? Each person who did is guilty of theft.
There may be no good answer for the present, but maybe Al's solution for the future is to no longer share his photos with us.
Jim Morrison
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That is not necessarily the case.
You can copy pictures from the net if you only use them for your own personal use. You can't sell them to anyone nor display them in public. If you did display them in public or sell them then you are guilty as that was the case with the entire Napster deal. It was the mass trading of copyrighted material.
I am more familiar with the music side of the law on copyright infringement. If you have legally purchased the songs you can rip them to your computer and you can burn them to a CD. If you trade music with a friend you are allowed to do that provided you are not doing it for money OR doing it to an excessive amount (typically more than three shares of the file).
That was the way it was explained to me by a student who was doing a study of the Napster fallout while he was in college. His info came from a massive amount of studying the cases and rulings that came from and still coming from online file sharing.