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Copyright notices. Was Re: Some general questions!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auerbach)
Mon Aug 1 14:37:34 1994
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 20:32:37 +0200
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From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
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> > Q1. Once these photographs/images are scanned onto the MOSIAC server,
> > is it possible for other MOSIAC (client) sites to COPY or
> > REPRODUCE these images. The issue here is one of COPYRIGHT
> > violations. I guess I would like to know how other institutions
> > are handling the copyright issues?
>
> Well copyright is kind of a sticky question here. It is impossible for
> any client to present an image to the user without copying the image.
Might we want to consider a new header line that can express the fact
that something is copyrighted and the terms under which it can be
copied?
For example consider the following in a document header:
Copyright: Sherman Oakes, 1994
Copyright-terms: User may make up to 50 additional copies.
Copyright-cost: $0.10 per additional copy
Copyright-payment-to: Copyright Clearance Center
These lines could be formally structured to make them comprehensible
to the user's viewer.
--karl--
