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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3637807, member: 84744"][USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER]: Some of the images you removed were showing, not so much images of coins, but images of what your browser looks like when doing a particular kind of search; they were screenshots. Of course, images of coins are included within that, but there are a few reasons to suppose that the screenshots and the coin images contained therein complied with the Fair Use aspect of copyright law:</p><p><br /></p><p>• they were being used for comment/criticism</p><p>• the coin images were thumbnails (& thumbnails have been ruled as acceptable under Fair Use, e.g. for search engines)</p><p>• the copyright holder for the website content, namely acsearch, clearly approved of their use since they posted in the thread</p><p><br /></p><p>I realize it's (quite rightly) the site's policy to err on the side of caution, but removing those screenshots strikes me as a little <i>over</i> cautious. Thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3637807, member: 84744"][USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER]: Some of the images you removed were showing, not so much images of coins, but images of what your browser looks like when doing a particular kind of search; they were screenshots. Of course, images of coins are included within that, but there are a few reasons to suppose that the screenshots and the coin images contained therein complied with the Fair Use aspect of copyright law: • they were being used for comment/criticism • the coin images were thumbnails (& thumbnails have been ruled as acceptable under Fair Use, e.g. for search engines) • the copyright holder for the website content, namely acsearch, clearly approved of their use since they posted in the thread I realize it's (quite rightly) the site's policy to err on the side of caution, but removing those screenshots strikes me as a little [I]over[/I] cautious. Thoughts?[/QUOTE]
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