Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Unfair use - fantastic trip slide show

posted by Keith at

I guess that I am a little over sensitive about this...

Today I got an e-mail with the slide show "Fantastic Trip". It depicted several zooms in and out of the universe and had inspirational thoughts on each slide. The images and concept looked familiar, so I did a search and found where they came from:

http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

On that site it says,
No images, graphics, software, scripts, or applets may be reproduced or used in
any manner without permission from the copyright holders.

I suppose that we could give the slide show creator the benefit of the doubt and assume that he got permission to use those images. It is possible, but I doubt it. If he did get permission, he would have given credit to the proper people, and he didn't.

A few days ago I got another e-mail with pictures of the eagle attacking the swan. It was the same one that I got before, that gave credit to the wrong photographer.

I have stopped forwarding that stuff unless I am completely sure that it is legitimate.

By the way, I was successful in getting a few of may stolen art slide shows removed, but I gave up on the rest.

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