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By the way, Vancity Filming has offered a “blanket permission” for using their photos, but it’s much more than we can afford.
[adrotate group="5"]The “fair use” issue is something I’ve considered and think could still be valid. However, there’s a slight difference with his photos. “Fair use” covers use of copyrighted material for the sake of commentary or review. We do this with screenshots in our shownotes, sound clips in our podcast, and music clips in our soundtrack review. In each of these, we are directly commenting on the copyrighted work itself—they’ll all official parts of OUAT and we’re commenting on OUAT.
But these photos could be a slightly different issue. They’re not officially OUAT, and we’re commenting on the OUAT inside the photos, but not the photos themselves.
Then again, I could be too technical on this.
The point is that the copyright holder is clearly not happy with how his images are moving around on the Internet and he’s already sending DMCA takedown notices to sites he deems as infringing on his copyrights.
To the responsibility point, I’m not responsible for the opinions posted on this site. But if someone uploads a photo to the forums, it is hosted on my server and thus redistributes someone else’s work.
SpoilerTV and Vancity Filming have a special agreement and SpoilerTV provides embed codes for these photos. But those embed codes won’t work in these forums because we block HTML and Javascript.
This ended up being a problem with trying to limit the size of signature images. If I put in a limit, a lot of images don’t work. But if I leave it unlimited, then images work.
So for now, I’ll just ask that you keep your signature photos under 600 × 200 pixels. If I see something bigger than that, then I’ll contact the member and request that they adjust it.
Would I be crazy to say that I agree with everyone? 😛
Everyone is welcome to report posts that seem like they should be merged with an already-running conversation. But people often have a unique spin on things.
The more sections we create, the harder the conversation is to follow. And not everyone thinks alike. Our information architecture makes perfect sense to me, but that doesn’t mean it’s as obvious to anyone else.
This summer, I hope to move the forum into different software that will make a lot of things easier for me on the development side. That may also be a good time to get some help with cleaning up and merging things. If you’re interested in helping, post in my “Would you like to help?” thread.
Mushu could make sense, or maybe someone bigger. Can anyone read the Chinese characters on the walls?
There’s an upcoming hiatus and we’re trying to interview two of these ladies, if possible. Thank you for the input!
