NZ Harvards

[lowglow]

Copyright is a funny thing.

A friend of mine recently discovered that a photograph that they had put on the Internet stating also that it was copyrighted had infect been stolen and published in an Australian publication. He approached the publication and pointed out that they were in breach of copyright, and promptly received a rude and straight to the point reply back from the publisher, basically sod off. My friend decided to seek legal advice and was told that once an item is placed on the Internet any copyright has been forfeited and it becomes public domain, even if it states that it is copywitten , and that anyone may do as they please with it.
Not happy with this he decided to look into it further and was surprised to find that it was in fact law and the only way around it is not to put anything you do not want others to use for them selves on the Internet. This only applies to items put on the Internet.
I must also point out that he also decided to take things further and threatened the publisher with legal action, this turned into a huge s**t fight amongst a lot of people and the outcome he lost the case.

[Adamski]

QUOTE (lowglow @ Feb 29 2012,9:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My friend decided to seek legal advice and was told that once an item is placed on the Internet any copyright has been forfeited and it becomes public domain

With all due respect, that is utter rubbish! He needs to get a better solicitor!

[lowglow]

apparentlly not and there is also written somewhere I don't now were to find it but I had the email shown to me were it states that this is a fact as I said this caused a huge s**t fight and he lost
When I say written somewher I mean its a bit like the list of rules for this forum, There are also a list of rule written for the internet in general I don't know were to find them and I guess most would now either, but this clause is written in there forr all to see. Anyway I do not wish to say any more I got caught up in this last time as did alot of other people cause a lot of grief and my friend mad a lot of enermys in the internet world by stirring up a sore subject, its a very long story involving companys and organisations and alot of bad words
He actually sort the advice of two seperate solicitors and both pointed out this clause to him. He chose to ignore this and took it further and lost the case. Part of the s**t fight then was due to him making this public to others who then threatened to remove there websites from the internet so that there copyright could not be breached, went on for months and got very nasty