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

[Pete Stidman]

Thanks for correcting me Jonathan,

all I know is that we've done it for years all over
the network and anytime I ask someone from another IMC
I get the response that it's usually no problem. 

My main concern here is that we don't get bogged down
by the fear of doing this.  Tim, please continue to do
the good work you are doing with the pictures on our
stories and please keep this discussion in mind.

I think we would have to be an entirely different
level of operations to warrant attention from someone
looking to sue, and assuming jonathan is correct, it
would probably be a cease and desist.  

The main thing is, let's not be paralyzed with fear
over this trivial issue.  Maybe we can discuss getting
more help from artists and photographers but in the
meantime, business as usual?

-Pete


--- "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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
> 


	
		
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