Hello everybody here. I'm wondering if Ctrl-C Ctrl-V an image from Google books may carry any copyright issues.
Any advice is welcome.
Osvaldo.
Any advice is welcome.
Osvaldo.
My opinion, description and limited quoting probably constitutes "fair use" but a copy and paste image is going to require authorization in most cases if you want to avoid lawsuit or other issues.
> may carry any copyright issues.
That is far too broad a question.
Copyright law is complex.
Google figures what it does is "inside" the law (though they really push it). Note that Google's legal budget is MegaBucks bigger than yours, and they have been aggressively taking a legal position that most entities would not touch.
_IF_ a book is in "Download PDF" (in the 'gear' icon), it *may* be presumed copyright expired and public domain. I have been reading 1912 tech-magazines in gBooks and did post a snip from one. Unless your name is Mickey Mouse, copyright DOES expire, and 1912 is surely expired. The rules for later works, or works which have been renewed, are more complex (and Mickey will never expire as long as Disney has a lawyer).
And Google is USA-centric. Stuff may be legal in the US and not in Argentina. And the other way also. While there has been effort to harmonize copyright policy, every country is different. China and India make only token moves to respect foreign copyrights (prosecuting one loud case and overlooking thousands of others).
Do not tell me, but ask yourself: What are you going to do with it? Should the author get a cut? Who will know? Are you an honest fair person?
That is far too broad a question.
Copyright law is complex.
Google figures what it does is "inside" the law (though they really push it). Note that Google's legal budget is MegaBucks bigger than yours, and they have been aggressively taking a legal position that most entities would not touch.
_IF_ a book is in "Download PDF" (in the 'gear' icon), it *may* be presumed copyright expired and public domain. I have been reading 1912 tech-magazines in gBooks and did post a snip from one. Unless your name is Mickey Mouse, copyright DOES expire, and 1912 is surely expired. The rules for later works, or works which have been renewed, are more complex (and Mickey will never expire as long as Disney has a lawyer).
And Google is USA-centric. Stuff may be legal in the US and not in Argentina. And the other way also. While there has been effort to harmonize copyright policy, every country is different. China and India make only token moves to respect foreign copyrights (prosecuting one loud case and overlooking thousands of others).
Do not tell me, but ask yourself: What are you going to do with it? Should the author get a cut? Who will know? Are you an honest fair person?
The law must be equally applied, Disney and the Cole Porter LLC extend copyright for everyone when they lobby and win for themselves. My daughter decorates cakes at Whole Foods last year there was a memo that nothing even remotely resembling any Disney, DC, or Marvel comic character was allowed.
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This is why I ask. Unfortunately law in Argentina are made to violate them. Mostly I want to not do such a thing, but this is not a normal way of thinking (and acting) starting from presidents, and politics in general, from who it is expected to give a way to follow.
Many thanks to all inputs.
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