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By: Shawn Hyde

Shawn Hyde — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:31:44 +0000

Excellent article on blogging. Keep up the good work.

By: Daniel Brusilovsky

Daniel Brusilovsky — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:55:34 +0000

Thanks for the great bio!

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:04:52 +0000

Hi Lorelle

Many thanks for the link back to my post about Australian copyright, but more importantly for providing such wonderful blogging resources in the first place. I know I’ve spent many an hour here in the past – it’s invaluable

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:54:33 +0000

There is no “excerpt” online for images, though some have gotten away with using a part or portion. Still, we need to recognize ownership with all things on the web, and that means letting the owner decide how they want their work handled. Many decide to give it away without question. That’s wonderful. But it is their decision, not the decision of someone else imposed upon them.

And thank you so much for caring enough about this issue to not just ask, but to bring it to the attention to others. That means the world to those of us who have to fight so hard to make others understand. It is cut and dried and simple. If it isn’t yours, don’t take it. Ask first.

If the world only worked entirely on that principle.

By: sikoop

sikoop — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:57:27 +0000

All of our images for the ski club are our own. That 15 minutes of fame for the members and to show off the lodge. I was speaking in general about using images from other sources, but your answer works in either case (and reminds me that I should probably copyright those images on the ski club site). You’re saying that with images, just like everything else, you should ask first. The thing that makes the process harder with images is the fact that it IS so cut and dry, it’s all or nothing. As with everything it can be hard to be good but then it wouldn’t matter much if it was easy.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:46:27 +0000

sikoop: Are you talking about how to copyright images? In the ALT attribute, write “Image Copyright MY Name My Blog”. Make sure that your copyright policy includes referencing images and graphics.

As for the rest, images are no different from content. They are protected equally. You request their removal, just like content, the same way.

Is that what you meant?

If you are using images on that ski blog, without permission of the owner and the blog which hosted the original images, and you haven’t checked their copyright policy on the use of such images, then you could be violating their copyrights.

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By: J.T Dabbagian

J.T Dabbagian — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:23:46 +0000

Excellent, this was just what I wanted! Thanks Lorelle!

By: sikoop

sikoop — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:01:49 +0000

I have been continuing to think about copyright since my post and confession on JBot Mania. I was wondering what you think about copyright issues and images. Admittedly, I am almost afraid to ask. It’s next to impossible to reference an image partially (i.e. an excerpt) and like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. How do you handle referencing images and are there any standard limits that you find people are implementing?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:13:28 +0000

Thanks, Brian. I appreciate the honor.