Re: [CR]CR web site threatened by Law firm

(Example: Books:Ron Kitching)

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:45:54 -0700
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, OROBOYZ@aol.com
From: "Monkeyman" <monkey37@bluemarble.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]CR web site threatened by Law firm


>Thought you all would be interested to see a recent communication I received
>from an attorney in Japan. I have responded by immediately removing the
>images and apologizing to the owner and explaining that no profit was made by
>the inadvertant use of these old photos!

Sorry to hear about this. I'm not a lawyer but I know a bit about "fair use" as it exists in the US. I think your real problem is that the site is hosted by your shop domain, thus making it part of a "for proft" business. The Japanese may be seeing the CR site as an enticement to go to Cycles de Oro web page. If you can pass the site off as educational by putting it on a college or university domain and siteing and crediting all the photos and information I think you'll be OK. By making the site "educational" you can get away with just about anything "fair use" wise. Again I'm not an attorney but have a good bit of experience with educational "fair use." I know there are at least a dozen lawyers on the list and I'm sure a couple of them have copyright backgrounds and can add their $150/hr. . . (just kidding)

enjoy, Brandon"was-told-in-jr-high-he-should-be-a-lawyer"Ives

PS: could you post a list of the removed images so that we list members can see if we can replace them with our own.

Brandon and Mitzi's-- "Wurld uv Wunder" http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~capybara/

Monkeyman's on going bicycle part garage sale http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~mkirklan/salepage/garage.html

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