Zap

There are quite a few exceptions. If what your using it for is not fair use, then you must ask permission, if you use intellectual property. In the certain cases, you're professor or teacher must teach you how to make the correct citations.

Booooze

Yeah, that's kind of what I read there. Says the lay is 'unclear' in this area. I can see why. Probably comes down to the judge, and depends on the situation.

melbolt

here's a pretty informative page about web pertaining laws.

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyrigh...er6/index.html

if i were you i would get permission, credit doesn't seem to cut it, while there is a chance to plead the "fair use" law, this is kind of a grey area and i would not put much faith in it if i were you. especially if this is going to be commercial.

/em "farts in a tornado"

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Booooze

Well, not exactly commercial, I don't plan on making money out of it. Just enoughhopefully to cover expenses. Anwyays, once again I'm probably going to put off from doing this because of what has gone on in the last couple days. Stuck for time again.

DaWei

[tornado fart]
Probably not a valid definition for the right to snag someone's intellectual property .
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Indigno

Intellectual Property Law is a new idea, and sp is kind of fuzzy. It's why Eric Bauman can get away with blatently stealing people's work and claiming it as his own (Even though it breaks plaigarism laws)

DaWei

What qualifies as 'new' ?

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Indigno

maybe not so much new, but incorporating it with the global communication and the fact that the internet is viewable by anyone with a connection and that these animations and such are free (besides ISP costs) to watch, and therefore people can just grab them and do whatever they want with them because the artist wasn't making a profit and therefore that means that anyone can claim it. Which is wrong, because the artists are paid in critisism and pats on the back and are losing something by someone else getting the credit.

Booooze

Once again it's sketchy. Think of it as me reading a bunch of articles on it, and then deciding to write my own. It's all for educational purposes, which is under that fair use law.

DaWei

Weird. I thought the post said it was something (a project) you could DO, not something you could write. Let me give you some facts (not tornado farts). I have written an article (including illustrations) describing an idea. You may learn all you like from that, and you may describe it until the cows come home. If you copy my material, with or without attribution, without permission, I'm going to sizzle your ass in a court of law. If you use my idea (which is patented), I'm going to sizzle the sizzled ashes.

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