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Copyright 11-Mar-2005 At 11:56:17 AM Ronny

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Neil,
I think this is a really interesting quesiton. It concerns the divide between editorial content and commercial use. At one extreme, there is no question that you can't go and use someone else's photos for commercial purposes without consent, but at the other end, there are legitimate uses for photos - for example if you were writing something about an advert that appeared in a particular magazine (for a news paper or academic journal or something), you would be able to reproduce it in some form (there will be some restrictions on this but I'm not sure what). Another legitimate purpose is in conversation, taking the magazien and showing it to your friends and making some comment about it.
Using photos on this forum is arguably fairly similar to the last example - except of course they are used out of context and with no credit given to the source.

I'll try to lookup whatever I can find on this over the weekend, and will let you know what I turn up.
James