Re: [cobalt-users] It's Only me ??

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Someone can take a print screen and copy and paste and this effects no
> copyrights. 

The IP owner holds the copyrights to the content regardless of medium or
transformation.  This image may very well be from a stock collection, but
the depending on the license that Cobalt has made with the stock photo
owner, they may or may not own the copyright on it.  Probably not, but they
are under license to use the image.  And if you copy-and-paste this content
without license from the copyright holder (and it wasn't covered under 'fair
use'), you would be violating numerous IP protection laws.

> Besides anyone who thinks that their images that are published
> on the net are safe by copyright, they are sadly mistaken. All images on the
> net are in the public domain. and are free to use by anyone. Have you seen
> all the other web hosters who use cobalts images?? They are all over the
> place.

This is not true.  The owner of the content must explicitly give up their
rights to the content in order for it to be public domain.

And a couple of notes:

The copyright owner doesn't even need to stake a claim on the
copyright--intellectual property is covered regardless.

Any form of intellectual property is covered by domestic and international
copyright law.  This includes: HTML code, Javascript Code, Images, text
content, music.  If you are using any of these without express permission or
a license, you would be violating copyright law.  It isn't largely inforced
on the Internet due to the difficult of doing so.  I.e. how do I know if
someone is kiping my images and reusing them?  You have to find them before
you can sue 'em.

This is some of the things that the bruhaha is about: digital watermarks,
audio compression and delivery mechanisms, encyption technologies, etc.

Its a big can of worms, and pretty much nothing is 'public domain' out
there--besides maybe some works of the Guttenberg project (and even these
may be covered).  Even 'free' software requires a license.

Some of the images of Cobalt's equipments have been licensed for use as a
reseller or ISP partner.  This is legal because the cobalt people have
offered up the images for use.

-k