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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Idontlikeusernames: [QB] Ahh...... public domain and the internet, one of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of copyright law is the fallacious assumption that because something is posted on the internet it is somehow placed within the public domain and therefore free for all to use (with or without acknowledgements to the original author) as they please. Now the basic thing they taught me was that, pursuant to the Berne convention which automatically establishes copyrights on almost all creations right from their inception onwards (whether they're tagged as copyrighted or not is actually irrelevant according to the convention, although it might be relevant in several national jurisdictions around the world)that it's in fact [i]illegal[/i] to download or copy [i]any[/i] data from the internet unless one of the following exceptions applies: a) the work is created by the government (sometimes government funded organizations fall under this category as well, though not always), b) the copyright has expired, c) the creator or copyright holder has abandoned the copyright, d) the owner [i]expressly[/i] releases the work into the public domain or e) the use is covered by acceptable exceptions. Not surprisingly most legal problems arise from that last category since it tends to vary not only between jurisdictions but often also between cases in the same jurisdictions what exactly qualifies as an �acceptable� exception. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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