What i mean is, is it illegal to get a pic from some internet place selling art and do "save as" ? someone told me it is illegal and you can get arrested for it. is that really true?
It's only illegal if you then try to resell the work, or publish it without permission. Once an image is displayed in your browser it is already saved on your computer. By doing 'save as' you're simply saving it in a more permanent fashion.
It's the same with downloading music, it's not illegal (I think), but since it's saved to your shared folder, other can download it and that makes it illegal.
Katherine
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 | 10:19 PM
Eh...I don't know that the comparison between saving images and downloading music is an apt one. Saving an image (even copyrighted!) in and of itself is not, to my knowledge, illegal. Perhaps I'm wrong here, but I don't believe it is. As Alex says, the illegality is when you actually use it for some nefarious purpose of your own. (Nonprofit educational use--a class lecture, for example--is usually legal.) Saving it to your computer, and then putting it on, say, Photobucket and putting it on your webpage would be illegal. Printing out the photo and selling it is illegal. Making it into a Livejournal avatar would be illegal. But just having it saved on your computer and not doing anything with it except looking at it is not illegal.
Downloading copyrighted music, on the other hand, is in and of itself illegal. But the thing with that is that it's very difficult to catch people who are simply downloading music. It's much, much easier to catch (and make a legal case) against people who are uploading copyrighted files to thousands of users. The music industry police may someday come after individual downloaders, but for the time being, you're fairly safe as long as you only download music and never upload it. It's still illegal, but the legal authorities are almost certainly not going to catch you at it. (Not, of course, that I condone such shocking illegality...heh.)
Massive prison time. I wouldn't do it!!! Think "Martha Stewart". Actually, I don't like Martha Stewart and I am tired of hearing her name.
Big Deal. She goes to a prison called "Camp Cupcake". Give me a break.
Honestly, you can print any image and do what you like as long as it is for personal use. Now, if you start to use the image for profit or use it to advertise anything, you need permission.
But your local copy shop probably isn't going to print it for you unless you have some kind of copyright permission. Copy shops are massively uptight about copyright.
Umm, somehow I do not equate Martha the Evil with massive prison time.
Now, someone like Robert Hansen (think Alaska serial killer) brings long sentences to mind. I just checked, and his sentence was 461 years.
LaMa
in Europe Member
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 09:17 AM
quote: "But your local copy shop probably isn't going to print it for you unless you have some kind of copyright permission. Copy shops are massively uptight about copyright'
Is it really that bad in the US? Here in the Netherlands a copy shop doesn't give a damn about what you print, as long as it are not fake banknotes or child porn.
I've never had a problem with copy shops, but a supermarket who does printing onto cakes got very panicked when I took an image there for work, they printed it without asking, and then I couldn't find the copyright permission letter.
I love my job.
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA Member
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 07:21 AM
...You can do that here...but you can't do any pics that were done professionaly. Techincally the company "owns" it. It's my damn face. They should pay ME royalties or something.
Katherine
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 07:21 AM
Onto a CAKE? Oh, man, that's harsh. Maybe they're afraid they'll get busted by...whatever authorities are in charge of copyright violations. Wouldn't that be great? "This is the copyright authorities! Put your hands up and hand over the cake and no one gets hurt." Heh...
