"Bob Hughes" <bob### [at] charter net> wrote in message
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>> ...
>> I'd like to include a thumbnail of each image in the list. My
>> question: Am I allowed to do this without asking each artist for
>> permission?
>> ...
> I looked for something about "fair use" to see if you might be in that
realm
> by doing what you plan. Seems to be a grey area of copyrighted material. I
> wasn't sure of any definite line between fair and unfair use even after
> reading about it at:
>
> http://www.coastal.edu/education/ti/copyright.html
>
> This is just one place a google search found for me.
>
...
> Bob Hughes
>
Florian,
This certainly does look like a very grey area.
Google uses thumbnails on its 'image search' pages and it seems they've
'explored' some of the legal implications.
According to http://www.linksandlaw.com/news-update16.htm they had a case
that said it was OK with their automatically generated thumbnails under US
law, but in a similar German case the same use was apparently found not to
comply with German copyright laws.
Chris B.
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