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Chris	Post subject: Transport fliers Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 10:38 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Wed Jan 15, 2003 6:42 pm Posts: 2412	Well I am sorry if I have offended anyone with my statement, but in the past, we have had no problems, and no one has _ever_ had any objection to it, webmasters or moderators or otherwise. Due to the confusion this has caused, I believe that we need some set rules in place for this type of thing, so that we know where we stand on posting links to pictures, and thus eliminating any cause for complaint, or even legal action. Cheers Chris _________________ Chris
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frater_sinister	Post subject: Transport fliers Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 10:53 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Thu Oct 30, 2003 7:01 pm Posts: 119 Location: Aarhus, Denmark, Europe	Good call Chris...good thing we got it brought up...
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Jimbo

Post subject: Transport fliers Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 11:11 pm

Brood Brother Joined: Fri Feb 14, 2003 11:01 pm Posts: 3495 Location: Wessex

Well I am sorry if I have offended anyone with my statement, but in the past, we have had no problems, and no one has _ever_ had any objection to it, webmasters or moderators or otherwise. Chris I don't think anyone is offended as such by your statement there isn't really an issue with posting links to pages which have pictures on (which is what has happened in the past) very rarely does anyone post a direct link to a picture I am an expert (but no lawyer) in relation to copyright and copyright infringement. Here is an article I wrote for work http://www.westerncc.ac.uk/help117.html on mp3 and linking. I started the whole ball rolling by pretending to know which pictures were coming up on the GW site because I had worked out the URL of the picture of the day and then by guessing that 3 followed 2 and 4 followed 3 what the picture URLs would be. I then wrote a post in which I pretended to look into the future and tell people what was coming. Somone else then worked how I had done it (Tom I think). Legion couldn't work out how to do it on his webTV and then you posted all the URLs to help him out. Then in another thread, Crimson posted a direct link to my picture of the Ork Landa, which I objected to. My reasons were explained there and by linking to the page another poster on the forum was then able to see my other pictures. However I do have other reasons why I object to deep-linking of pictures (not pages I think that's great). 1. Once someone lifted one of my pictures and used it to sell the models of it they had and I never got any money for it! 2. Someone once linked (as I am doing above) my pictures to another forum (of which I was unaware) and did not credit or link back to my site. This meant that he was gaining the kudos for the pictures and I was paying for the bandwidth. 3. Webspace and bandwidth are not free, it costs me money, my webspace costs me approx ?100 per year. If people are not visiting my site (just seeing my pictures) then they won't see my Amazon adverts which bring in approx ?100 per year! Without that I wouldn't have a website and I would have no pictures on the web. After you posted No, we have no problems posting links to the pictures, I did it for about a weeks worth of the Epic pics!

it got me thinking that maybe this was not such a good idea to post GW URLs direct (as they are more than likely not to be happy) hence my post stating that this picture linking may not be a good idea. Though I think it was the "we" bit which got me on my high horse!



It is very very easy to infringe copyright (I know I have on my website) and is linking to a picture copyright infringement, probably not. However I do feel that GW would not be happy about it and would ask for it to be stopped.

I also realise that some people don't care if they infringe copyright and that it is okay to do! However this is not a "free" forum and I know that we would miss it if it disappeared!