So, what guidelines should I use when deciding what I can post?
Bill
Need to know the Posting Rules
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Bill Manzke
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Need to know the Posting Rules
I need to know the posting rules on this site in regards to unattributed photos. Back in the MCCH days, I harvested all of the posted images that appeared in the Corgi/Husky/Juniors/Mettoy forum and saved them to disk. They are all intermixed with my own images, as well as images off of old e*** auctions and collector's web pages. To be honest, there are a large percentage for which I do not remember their origin. However they show unique model variations in many cases. I saved them as reference materials for any future updates to the books. There are literally thousands of images.
So, what guidelines should I use when deciding what I can post?
Bill
So, what guidelines should I use when deciding what I can post?
Bill
At the beach, counting down to retirement.
Re: Need to know the Posting Rules
I would suggest that where a source is known, it either be added to the text or used as the image title. Where it is unclear what the origin is, I think you should just state that. (At the end of the day, it is extremely unlikely that anyone will come and comb this site for copyright infringements and, even if they do, it will be a quick and easy task to remove any offending photographs.)Bill Manzke wrote:So, what guidelines should I use when deciding what I can post?
BTW, you can say Ebay here. In fact, we even have an [url=http://vintagebritishdiecasts.co.uk/for ... m.php?f=21[Ebay section[/url].
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GHOSTHUNTER
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Re: Need to know the Posting Rules
By posting on an open forum most of us can expect our pictures to be saved and copied by others outside of the forum for their own reference use. Most of the time this does not cause problems unless you find one or more of your pictures being used for monetary gain or credit in published media without any acknowledgement or picture credit to the originator of the picture.
As Hugh says if you do know the original source or creater of a picture it is polite to acknowledge this when putting that picture to further use in your own books or here on the forum.
Picture/Image copyright is such a grey area and quite complicated to understand and then implement correctly a lot of copying and or infringement happens without most of us noticing and with no further issues developing.
If saving and copying pictures off websites or collector forums those pictures may well have electronic copyright protection which in its most basic form is a banner (usually a name of the copyright holder as text) spread across a portion of the picture. Advanced picture protection is embeded within the code that went to make up the digital picture so is a sort of digital dna injection.
You will see that I have saved your picture of the three Aston Martin models, reduced the image, added anhancement and made it level. I could do all sorts of enhancements to your picture in an attempt to make it look different from the original and then pass it off as my own and if one day you spot the picture it is up to you to prove my picture started out as your picture (which is very easy to do) and take copyright infringement action against me!
Ghosthunter.
As Hugh says if you do know the original source or creater of a picture it is polite to acknowledge this when putting that picture to further use in your own books or here on the forum.
Picture/Image copyright is such a grey area and quite complicated to understand and then implement correctly a lot of copying and or infringement happens without most of us noticing and with no further issues developing.
If saving and copying pictures off websites or collector forums those pictures may well have electronic copyright protection which in its most basic form is a banner (usually a name of the copyright holder as text) spread across a portion of the picture. Advanced picture protection is embeded within the code that went to make up the digital picture so is a sort of digital dna injection.
You will see that I have saved your picture of the three Aston Martin models, reduced the image, added anhancement and made it level. I could do all sorts of enhancements to your picture in an attempt to make it look different from the original and then pass it off as my own and if one day you spot the picture it is up to you to prove my picture started out as your picture (which is very easy to do) and take copyright infringement action against me!
Ghosthunter.