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<p>[QUOTE="acsearch.info, post: 3643617, member: 105839"]Please excuse my late reply to this thread. Although I was following all your comments, I was not able to respond due to some problems logging in to my account.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although not a lawyer, I have dealt with copyright laws more than I wish in recent years. Websites are accessible form all over the world, which is a great thing, but makes it all even more complicated. Let's say a collector from Italy posts a picture of a German photographer on CT. What do you think which copyright laws apply? According to some international conventions and contracts, the copyright laws of both the US and Germany apply (see for example the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works).</p><p><br /></p><p>Now in Germany, for example, copyright laws are very restrictive. Any picture (no matter the reason it was taken for or how artistic it is) is protected by copyright laws and you are not allowed to use it without permission of the copyright holder (which in our case can be the auction company OR the photographer, depending on their contract). Furthermore, permission to use an image does not necessarily include the right to give others permission to use the same image. That is exactly the reason why we can not grant permission to use any images from acsearch on other websites. We simply do not have the right to do so.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you check out Google, you will see that even they started to link images (also the thumbnails) rather then delivering them from their own servers for this exact reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now while I support Doug in making sure no copyrights are violated, I am not quite sure the CT way of linking images is save at all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at the HTTP response code (200), the file is delivered from the CT server. Linked content either uses a remote URL or returns the code 30x, which indicates a redirect of the request. Although the CT URL contains the remote URL as a parameter, the request itself clearly goes to CT and the response is delivered from CT. I assume CT is loading the image on the back end and delivers it from its own server, which is a very bad idea when dealing with copyrights. In fact, I think it doesn't make any difference if you "link" (the way CT does) or directly upload the images to CT.</p><p><br /></p><p>A linked image's URL would have to look like this:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/5203/5293898.m.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/5203/5293898.m.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/5203/5293898.m.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The CT "linked" image URL looks like this:</p><p>https://<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/5203/5293898.m.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/5203/5293898.m.jpg" rel="nofollow">www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acsearch.info%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2Farchive%2F83%2F5203%2F5293898.m.jpg&hash=1e70eb03ef352b66a1e4f9976240d174</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As some of you already figured out, you can link the small and medium thumbnails from acsearch without any restrictions (those are the ones whose URLs end with ".s.jpg" and ".m.jpg"). The enlarged images, however, are only visible to logged in members in order to protect them from being easily downloadable by bots and other software.</p><p><br /></p><p>Simon[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="acsearch.info, post: 3643617, member: 105839"]Please excuse my late reply to this thread. Although I was following all your comments, I was not able to respond due to some problems logging in to my account. Although not a lawyer, I have dealt with copyright laws more than I wish in recent years. Websites are accessible form all over the world, which is a great thing, but makes it all even more complicated. Let's say a collector from Italy posts a picture of a German photographer on CT. What do you think which copyright laws apply? According to some international conventions and contracts, the copyright laws of both the US and Germany apply (see for example the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works). Now in Germany, for example, copyright laws are very restrictive. Any picture (no matter the reason it was taken for or how artistic it is) is protected by copyright laws and you are not allowed to use it without permission of the copyright holder (which in our case can be the auction company OR the photographer, depending on their contract). Furthermore, permission to use an image does not necessarily include the right to give others permission to use the same image. That is exactly the reason why we can not grant permission to use any images from acsearch on other websites. We simply do not have the right to do so. If you check out Google, you will see that even they started to link images (also the thumbnails) rather then delivering them from their own servers for this exact reason. Now while I support Doug in making sure no copyrights are violated, I am not quite sure the CT way of linking images is save at all. Looking at the HTTP response code (200), the file is delivered from the CT server. Linked content either uses a remote URL or returns the code 30x, which indicates a redirect of the request. Although the CT URL contains the remote URL as a parameter, the request itself clearly goes to CT and the response is delivered from CT. I assume CT is loading the image on the back end and delivers it from its own server, which is a very bad idea when dealing with copyrights. In fact, I think it doesn't make any difference if you "link" (the way CT does) or directly upload the images to CT. A linked image's URL would have to look like this: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/5203/5293898.m.jpg[/URL] The CT "linked" image URL looks like this: https://[URL='https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/5203/5293898.m.jpg']www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acsearch.info%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2Farchive%2F83%2F5203%2F5293898.m.jpg&hash=1e70eb03ef352b66a1e4f9976240d174[/URL] As some of you already figured out, you can link the small and medium thumbnails from acsearch without any restrictions (those are the ones whose URLs end with ".s.jpg" and ".m.jpg"). The enlarged images, however, are only visible to logged in members in order to protect them from being easily downloadable by bots and other software. Simon[/QUOTE]
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