[Qgis-community-team] copyright

[Lars Stöwesand]

I fully agree with your statement.
And to be sure, I will contact every copyright holder in advance if I  
plan to post material directly to our website.
If I just link to a certain website which offers course or other  
useful materials I will just send a notice to the copyright holder to  
get him informed.
/Lars



Am 14.05.2008 um 22:40 schrieb Tara Athan:

> All- in answer to a question that was posed during the meeting, the  
> Richard Plant tutorials include this statement on the index page:
>
> QGIS Tutorial Labs by Richard E. Plant is licensed under a Creative  
> Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
>
> So, it is free to use under the restrictions that go with this  
> license.
>
> This is my understanding of copyright matters (I am not a lawyer),
> It is up to the author/publisher to state the use restrictions of  
> content they post on a website.
> It is up to the user to get permission for other uses, or to contact  
> the copyright holder if that is part of the restriction.
>
> When a webpage provides a link to another webpage, that doesn't  
> constitute use of the content, just the address. You cannot  
> copyright a url.
>
> So when we post a link, we are under no obligation to determine what  
> the use restrictions are.
>
> As to posting information about the use restrictions, we could do  
> that as a courtesy to our website users, but I'm not sure that we  
> want to make that a required part of posting a link on the website.
>
> If we copy material and post it on our website, we have to follow  
> the copyright restrictions.
> In the case of the Richard Plant tutorials, the license does allow  
> us to copy and post to the qgis website as long as we give  
> attribution and also license it under the same Creative Commons  
> license.
>
> Does this match with other folks understanding of the issue?
>
> Tara
>
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