[Boston-editorial] Proposal: pictures required for centered articles

[Jonathan D. Proulx]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:46:33AM -0800, Pete Stidman wrote:

:In order to get sued for copyright the people suing us
:would have to prove that we profitted from using their
:images, this is a total impossibility.  So please. 
:Plunder at will and stop worrying so much!

Not exactly true...they need to show a loss on their part.  If the
copyright holder charges or can charge for the use we employ they can
enfore the copyright.

Fair use is broad and in our favor especially in terms of logos and
things that are representative of and owned by the suject of a story.

We don't actually happen to have a lawyer in our midst do we?  It
would be handy to have an official "legal opinion" kind of thing to
base policy on.

Copyright enforcemnt against a poor non profit like us consists of a
cease and disist order, not likely anyone would even seek damages, so
no need to be paralyzed by this.  But "plunder" is probably a bad term
especially if someone ever does want to purse a (possibly spurious)
copyright law suit against us...

-Jon