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Originally Posted by Dephormation
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If I recall, earlier there was some webwise content on BT - back in the days when they hosted a link from the home page and it was within a webwise subdirectory as well as the webwise subdomain. Duplicate content (unlikely) or server domain management. With the external hosting still having the same content over multiple domains it is likely that this has always been their domain hosting method.
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Originally Posted by R Jones
I think this may have a bearing on the copyright aspects of Webwise and would appreciate it if our resident copyright experts could give it a browse and comment.
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If you ever have a look at one of the image libraries available you will see there how many allow free use for personal / educational use or non published use and a different licence for commercial use - even having different licences depending on the number of copies to be used. Third party use gets even more complicated. So much so that when I use one of these libraries for web design and can't work out whether the language says I can then sell the derivative design to a client or not, I use the 'free' licence during the design phase and then arrange for the client to obtain the commercial licence and use the images they buy for the final design. The last thing I want is to produce a design and then have a copyright lawyer chasing them for using the images without them being able to show that they obtained a licence.
Copyright law and licences could make some lawyers very rich.
If you are into 'funny pictures' you will know many sites that host images and usually try to cover themselves with something along the lines of requesting people not to submit images if they are not the copyright owner, that images are published in good faith, are covered by copyright, etv. And if someone who owns the copyright sees their image hosted without permission to contact the webmaster so that the material can be removed.
In the real world, once you have seen the image on one site you are likely to see it on many other sites in the not too distant future. (Feel sorry for the celebs and [often drunk] students trying to get their 'unofficial' images removed.)