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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3637819, member: 112&quot;]The way Fair Use is applied to pictures is a bit different than it is with text. That&#039;s because text you can copy a small portion of the text, as opposed to all the text. But with pics, there is no small portion, with a pic it&#039;s the entire thing that is copyright protected. And each and every image has its own individual copyright. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for what you mentioned about thumbnails, well I don&#039;t know of any way you (with you being an individual) can create a thumbnail without first violating copyright. Yeah, search engines can do it, but I don&#039;t know of any software out there available to individuals that can do it. But if there is, have at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for this - <i>the copyright holder for the website content, namely acsearch, clearly approved of their use since they posted in the thread</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Oddly enough that&#039;s what started this. Ya see, I&#039;ve been recommending acsearch to forum members and others all over the world for as long as acsearch has existed. So yesterday when I saw that acsearch had joined the forum, I was actually excited about it. So I sent him a PM, and I specifically asked if he could do what Heritage did for CT many years ago - give CT (and it&#039;s members) permission to use Heritage pics here. </p><p><br /></p><p>His response to me was this - acsearch doesn&#039;t own the copyrights to the pics. The auction companies own them. So he could get me permission to use them to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>And erring on the side of caution - quite simply I don&#039;t have any choice - I have to do it that way. And even though members are not aware of it, CT has been asked on numerous occasions to remove pics, and sometimes text, that is copyright protected, by the owners of the copyrights.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look guys, I readily agree - it sucks. But it is the way it is. And there is a legal way to do it. All you, the members have to do - is do it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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