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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HawkeEye, post: 3093247, member: 86305&quot;]On the Stanford link I sent I think they address that.&nbsp; There were some renewal dates for some items that passed and some images and other works passed into the public domain.&nbsp; It seems like it was 1924, but I would have to find the reference again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not trying to break the law, just understand the dividing lines.&nbsp; I have actually contacted everyone to get permission to use data without directly quoting them.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there is another issue that was never anticipated by the copyright laws to my knowledge.&nbsp; If the effective date of many issues is 1976 then this pretty much predates or effectively predates the Internet.&nbsp; I seriously doubt the availability of information of all types, worldwide, could have ever been anticipated.&nbsp; 1976 copyright laws may be in effect, but are they enforceable given the rapid changes we have seen to data availability.&nbsp; Is the Internet in effect a public highway where people know there is no reasonable expectation of privacy or control?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a friend at the University of Georgia who has a staff of three people who do nothing but search the Internet 8 hours a day for unauthorized use of their logo.&nbsp; I would believe that they are actively protecting their proprietary information and could defend themselves.&nbsp; But they are looking for products where logos are used to create value.&nbsp; I doubt they would look for every picture ever taken and shared on their web site.&nbsp; For UGA football alone there are 47,600,000 links (its a southern thing).</p><p><br /></p><p>Images are a particular hardship.&nbsp; Without a lot of effort one can extract anything and combine it with anything to create a unique image.&nbsp; At what point is the image unique to the new creator and not the original creator of the components?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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