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Denise Covert
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Joined: 25 Jun 2005
Posts: 399
Location: Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal
Posted:
Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:18 pm
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| stoddard wrote:: | | Looks like an invitation to multiple copyright infringement lawsuits. |
OK, here's a stupid question -- how exactly is this illegal? Once a newspaper is published for all to see, does that make the image of the front public domain? I mean, just because it's on the internet doesn't mean someone can steal it and use it for profit, but if, say, they bought a copy of each paper and papier-mache'd them onto a placemat and laminated that, is that more/less legal?
Just wondering.
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newsdesigner
Newsdesigner
Joined: 10 Mar 2004
Posts: 157
Location: The Oregonian
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Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:08 pm
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| Denise Covert wrote:: | | stoddard wrote:: | | Looks like an invitation to multiple copyright infringement lawsuits. |
OK, here's a stupid question -- how exactly is this illegal? Once a newspaper is published for all to see, does that make the image of the front public domain? I mean, just because it's on the internet doesn't mean someone can steal it and use it for profit, but if, say, they bought a copy of each paper and papier-mache'd them onto a placemat and laminated that, is that more/less legal?
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Well, I don't think anyone can come after you for reselling actual physical copies of a newspaper. I don't think that's a copyright issue. But if you were to grab a PDF of the Orlando Sentinel and start selling big fullsize posters, I think you'd have Tribune lawyers at your door. A lot of newspapers like to make money selling reproductions of their front pages, and it'd be a pretty open-and-shut case that you're undermining the market for the copyrighted work.
Since I first saw this thing, I've come around to thinking that Bill Walsh is right and that it's not (or shouldn't be) infringement. Seems like there's been some transformative work done here, what with there being numerous pages and made significantly smaller at that. But it seems like one of those arguable cases that an aggressive copyright defender could conceiveably win. It does make me feel funky seeing something like that for sale, but "It Makes Me Feel Funky" is not yet an element of copyright law that I'm aware of (unless by "Me" you mean "CEO of Disney").
All that said, I Am Not A Lawyer and most likely have no idea what I'm talking about.
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