I am the person who began this discussion by posting a question to the list. When I first began to markup pages and saw something I liked on the www, I viewed the source and saw what people were doing to learn more about it. With the advent of Navigator Gold, this is a snap. I believe the creative effort, appearance and functionality of the html in a site is protected by copyright, but we all use intellectual property to learn, so learning how to "do" html by looking at what someone has done is fine, but to take it without asking permission would be wrong.
Another reference that was brought to my attention by a faculty menmer states "so what about these fancy graphics, the spinning "new"! signs and the neon sliding bars? I can't have those, can I? Why, sure you can. There are many online resources for background images, icons, patterns, and everything is ripe for the picking. Simply right-click on any graphic you like and you can save it to your hard disk. Why spend hours learning Photoshop when the work has already been done for you by a highly paid graphic designer? Unless you start claiming that you designed it or you start charging money for its reproduction, chances are that nobody will notice or care" Yahoo! Internet Life, V3, no3, March '97, p. 75.
I bring this up because there is a big debate among a the College of Business Adminsitration is discussing what they can and can not do with web infomation and images and because I am on a copyright committee here. Without permission, I believe that the above would be a copyright violation. How do you feel about this? If you respond to me privately please be aware that I will be in a conference until late Friday night. TIA.
Cheers,
Gary Oliver--Cataloger 915-674-2343 (w) Abilene Christian University 915-674-2204 (fax) 221 Brown Library oliverg[_at_]nicanor.acu.edu ACU Box 29208 PfW Listowner
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