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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,

...
but the same picture appears on another web site at

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


Hi,

Indeed, I know this problem.
However, in 99.9% of cases I ask the permission to each people, 100% grant.
Many readers could confirm my actions.
I have on the contrary a problem with some vintage pictures of hamshaks.
Some if not all these pictures fall in the public domain according the Berne
Copyight Convention and more recent addenda which I develop the ideas on my
site too at http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/copyright-pro.htm
100 years for a copyright if the author is not more alive looks suspect.

But you right. I have still to check this information with the Spark museum
for the few old hamshack published on my web. All others have already
accepted or am in the way to send the last requests. As usual I send
sometimes some requests after publishing...

In 4 years, since the publishing of this site I was only once questionned
about a copyright problem. Its was PBS, well-known to "persecute" even
websmasters or educational and non-profit websites. But I remove their 3
images and found new and better ones... That concerned abyssal creatures.
Most of the time this is the contrary that occurs. As I create also pictures
and drawing of my own for this website, many people including students,
professors or editors ask me the permission to reprint or reuse my
illustrations on their medium (website of course but also books or CD-ROM).
If I do not own the copyright I forward of cours etheir request to the right
owner.

73
Thierry


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