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Re: [OM] Lycos' Legality of Thumbnail Collections

Subject: Re: [OM] Lycos' Legality of Thumbnail Collections
From: "Scott Nelson" <SNelson@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:07:56 -0500
Haveta disagree. Displaying someone else's work at a degraded quality is not 
only a copyright violation but perhaps a more serious one as it involves actual 
*copying* and fails to respect the artistic integrity of the original. If I 
crank out cheap poor quality prints of Ansel Adam's *Moonrise* I may be doing 
more harm to his intellectual property than if I make good ones. Consider if I 
were to publish an unauthorized rendition of *Moby Dick* but I changed the 
language to make it more current and *hip* or just condensed it for a quicker 
read. Waitaminute, that's a brilliant idea! Let's call it *Scott's Notes.*

>>1.  I think I agree that thumbnails are "fair game" because IMHO their size 
>>and resolution makes them pretty useless except as "buttons" for 
navigational purposes.  (That's assuming, of course, that the word "thumbnail" 
*isn't* defined as 8"x10")  :-)<<




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