> Copyright law allows you to cite from others' copyrighted material but i 
> doubt any interpretation of this says you are allowed to cite images.

I'm afraid you're right. I thought so, too, but I hoped to be wrong...


>> As an alternative, I could leave out the thumbnails, and post only the
>> links, but that somehow destroys the idea of the whole thing.
> 
> This would be undoubtly OK from the legal standpoint.

Yeah, but this solution is much less attractive than the one with
thumbnails.


> A solution would be a feature add-on for the newsserver web interface 
> with the possibility to pass a list of posting references and it returns 
> a page with those like
> 
> http://news.povray.org/digest/images/

Yeah, that would be an idea. I thought about sth like that, but figured
the POV-team probably rather wants to spend its time on 3.7 instead ;)


Thanks for your input,
Florian
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