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Re: [OM] Lycos' Legality of Thumbnail Collections

Subject: Re: [OM] Lycos' Legality of Thumbnail Collections
From: "Chris O'Neill" <coneill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:13:14 -0700
On 18 Jan 2001, at 22:38, Simon Evans wrote:

> >2.  The point of the discussion, though, wasn't the taking of
> >thumbnails >but, rather, of displaying the actual images "stripped"
> >of any copyright >notice contained on the original pages!  
>
> In which case my suggestion of incorporating copyright info into the image
> area at least means the source image can be identified as being yours.

That it does.  And therefore, it would be incorporated into the thumbnail 
too.  So, that seems to be one solution.

> >3.  I wouldn't have many concerns if the links to which the thumbnails
> >point are the original pages on the owner's site.  That way, the person
> >navigating via the thumbnails would see the copyright notices, if any.
> 
> But doesn't it just link to the image file? I forget.

Yup!  And THAT is the problem, IMHO.

Regards,

Chris

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