Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 06/10/07 19:51

Scripsit Dave Kelly:

> But I do understand. You will be hard pressed to find a stronger
> advocate of intellectual property rights than I.

Yet you still appear to try to find ways to avoid attributing photos to the
photographers in normal visible text.

> Your paragraph above leads to an important point about the
> intellectual property rights. It should be read by the new users and
> new adventurer into website coding.

I don't see any connection. You seem to have missed my point about the
requirements to announce the author.

> INFORMATION NOT INCLUDED IN THE ORIGINAL THREAD

Stop shouting.

> The pictures sent to me to be posted on the web site are sent by the
> authors of those pictures.

That does not mean that you are not obliged to announce their authorship.

> We are a nonprofit educational club of
> about 150 members teaching fly fishing to a wide range of people.

Excuse me while I yawn.

> Our executive governing committee has a lawyer looking over my
> shoulder and he gives me no breaks.

Most lawyers have little understanding of copyright issues. But if your
lawyer has shown green light to your approach of hiding authorship
information in meta tags, you have probably misinformed him about what
you're doing and what meta tags are. They're comparable to invisible ink.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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