>  From that website: 'Reproductions taken out of a book are not 
> permitted, as this constitutes a copyright violation of the publisher.', 
> but I agree with you.

And pretty far every film says that *no* copies or anything is 
permitted. You just view the movie and let no-one else see it.

And softwares tells in EULA when *installing* the *already-bought* 
software that you can't do this, this and this and the company who made 
the software can check your computer for copied software etc.

Luckily there are laws. Here in Finland, you need to do the contract 
_before_ buying the software/film/whatever to make it legal. Artists etc 
can't deny copying a CD for own usage (actually, we do pay extra for 
every single empty CD,DVD,tapes etc to get copying-to-own-use legal). 
For art our laws are tighter, and THEY do deny lots of art-copying 
(maybe all, not sure), but the artist can't make this any thighter than 
the law. They can give theier work to public and make it _easier_ and/or 
_cheaper_ for the consumer; NOT _harder_ and/or _more expensive_.

>> However, the safer bet would be to link to the image, I
>> suppose.

Of this, ABX posted:
-clip-
"Any reproduction of his work, including downloading..."

So the link would be useless ;-)
-clap-

When I enter http://www.mcescher.com/ to my browser, I see this 
http://www.mcescher.com/e20home.jpg in the front page, _before_ I can 
click "Copyright" to see this: Any reproduction of his work, including 
downloading, is prohibited without the express written permission of the 
copyright holder.

IF my browser DIDN'T download the image on front page (which is 
forbidden by the copyright text), HOW can I see it? It just generated on 
my screen? And IF that text really makes downloading _any_ of his work 
illegal, I must be a super-criminal to check THIS page: 
http://www.mcescher.com/Biography/biography.html (which is actually 
provided for me from the SAME people who gets the copyright to my view).

Seriously, almost all of the written-by-creator -copyright are themself 
far beoynd the law, trying to be smart and extremely-productive to scare 
people. Still I wouldn't post copyrighted image here, but link to that 
page just can't be illegal (assuming the image used is somewhere there).

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Eero "Aero" Ahonen
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