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Image legality



Original poster: "Chris Boden" <cboden-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org> 


Hi All,
     As many of you know, the Geek Group avidly supports the dissemination of
scientific and technical knowledge by all legitimate means. All pictures,
texts, and diagrams on our web site are published with the permission of the
author(s) and credits are posted to the extent possible.  We usually have no
objections to anyone copying pictures and quoting text as long as sources
are cited and appropriate credit given. However, copying from our site
without permission, removing credit lines, and publishing materials on
another website as one's own, is intellectually and professionally unethical
and, in the case of copyrighted materials, also illegal, even
internationally.

Because pursuing remedy claims internationally through the legal system is
very slow, painful, and costly, we are asking the members of TCML, the
largest peer-review TC group, to consider this several-year-old illustration
from our website:
   http://www.thegeekgroup-dot-org/projects/bucketcap/

and compare it to this recent website:
http://free-kc.htnet.hr/Kreso-Bukvic/Izrada%20VN%20kondezatora.htm

    and use whatever peer pressure they may be able to exert to remedy this
situation without our having to seek legal recourse.
     While we realize that sometimes a copy of a copy of a copy of something
may inadvertently be displayed without permission/credits However direct
plagiarism with deliberate editing out of names/logos is difficult to see as
accidental.

Sincerely,


The Geek Group Board