Perhaps everyone should get a copy of "Copyright in further and education
libraries" (ISBN 1-85604-322-2, £9.95)
which has the case example of the Shetland Times that is mentioned in the
mail message below as well as guidelines on digital copying.
The book does recommend it is good practice to seek permission before
linking, but also states that it is not a legal requirement, I think I'm
with Brian on this one.
Joel
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Joel Porter
Communications Officer
St Martins College
Ambleside, Cumbria. LA22 9BB
Tel: 015394 30395
Internal: 5395
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WEBMASTER [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 16 February 2001 08:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Avoiding copyright infringement
>
> Thanks for everyone's contributions to this topic.
>
> The guidelines are proposed for our teachers preparing on-line courses, to
> avoid
> colleagues downloading great chunks of existing web pages and images, and
> including them in/as their own work. This nearly happened before
> Christmas, when
> an author gave us some images for a forthcoming commercial CD, but didn't
> source
> the images ... which were taken from the web.
>
> I think quite a few people still regard the web as copyright free.
>
> The daft idea about asking permission to make web links has come from
> misinterpretation of the tale of the Scottish newspaper that passed off
> another
> web site's links as its own. So, I guess that guideline will not continue.
>
> I just wanted to check with this group that there was not been some legal
> thing
> I
> had missed that affected web linking, like the Data Protection Act
> recently
> affected staff e-mail lists.
>
> Thanks for the dialogue so far .... all worth reading, as ever.
>
> David King, Dudley College
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