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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1534272, member: 112&quot;]Well I hate to tell you this but this coin forum is not a non-profit, so neither am I. The owners tries his best to make money with this forum. So copyrighted images posted here violate the fair use clause. And that is not the only reason either. There are 4 basic guidelines that are used by the courts to determine if fair use is being violated. One of those is the amount of the content being used. And as I said before, a photo stands on it&#039;s on and represents the entire content of a copyright protected item. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you think differently then you ask your wife this. Ask her if she can take a photo out of another magazine and then use that photo in one pf her publications without getting written permission from the copyright owner of that photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>And by the way, I used to be an editor too so I also had to know and understand the copyright laws. Do you really think that I would just say something like that if I had not researched it thoroughly ? In the past I have publications like Coin World for permission to post just 1 photo from their magazine here on the forum. In every single case permission to post that photo was refused based on the copyright laws.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why do you think publications like newspapers and magazines all have their own photographers ? If they could use another paper&#039;s/magazine&#039;s pictures under the fair use clause they would, but they cannot because copyright law does not permit it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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