On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:47:01 +0100, "Thierry" To answer me in private
use http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/post.htm wrote:

Hi,

This short message to tell you that I published a short history of amateur
radio, 10 pages illustrated...
http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/qsl-ham-history.htm

Hi Thierry,

You obviously spend a lot of time on your web site, and are trying to
add content, which is good. Most web sites don't have much content.

I'd like to offer a suggestion, and I hope you take it the right way.

Adding original content to an already overflowing Internet isn't an
easy job. There is a lot of duplication on the Internet, and a lot of
people assemble entire web sites that are simply a duplication of what
someone else has already done. An example is AC6V's site,
which I'm sure Rod can verify has been ripped off link per link
several times over the years.

This problem has grown so much in the last few years that there
are companies using web spiders (robots) that constantly scan the
Internet looking for copyright and trademark violations. We even have
TurnItIn bot helping educational institutions prevent plagiarism on
student papers. (http://www.turnitin.com)

You have to be careful about what you 'borrow' from other web sites
because you never know if the web site you borrow it from may have
borrowed it previously from someone else without permission. Many
people are under the mistaken impression that if Google Images or
PSearch has an image indexed, it's OK to use it.

I don't know where you got the picture of Edmund B. Durham on your
page at

http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/qsl-ham-history2.htm

but the same picture appears on another web site at

http://www.sparkmuseum.com/DURHAM.HTM

and that web site has a copyright notice which reads "Unless otherwise
noted, all images and content are copyright John D. Jenkins. Use
without the written permission of the owner is forbidden."

Anyway, the point is that some people take copyright violations very
seriously, and to protect yourself you should be very careful about
what you use - on the Internet, the source you get it from may not be
the original source.

As we've seen from your exercise in radio history, the Internet is
already full of web sites about radio history. As you add content to
your web site, try and make it original content - that's what makes
your web site unique and interests people in coming to see it.

73, Jim KH2D