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Posted by Morgan on 09/19/05 01:39
Wings wrote:
> I put a state highway conditions page into my page on hiking, via an iframe,
> as highway conditions were important to our groups bi-weekly hiking trips.
> However, I've been somewhat uncomfortable over this. Just what are the
> ettiquette rules for grabbing someone else's page to enhance your own? One
> part of me says they should be happy for the exposure, but I realize that I
> am using them for my own purposes. Yes, I could link to them. but their page
> works so well with mine. Any comments in this regard? Is there a site
> dedicated to questions like this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
In legal terms, there is a concept called fair use which applies to
internet content/copyright.
Basically if you use the information for a non-profit purpose you're
ok. If however you use the information that isn't your content in a
profit context of any kind you could be sued, even if you just copied a
simple gif image from the site.
(In which case ask them, and then if they don't give it, you'll have to
make up your own content.)
See this link for more info on it.
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm
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