Legal Question in Technology Law in Kentucky
internet law??
If a person was new to the internet(less than 2 weeks), and unfamiliar with the etiquette etc....and went to a fansite of a celebrity, and printed some copies of the photo's on the site before realizing...that the site had said ''no printing or reproduction'' of the photo's-it you want to see the pictures again you have to come back to the websight'' what kind of trouble would that person be in? (the person intended not to sell or use the photo's for commercial gain but for personal use in a personal scrapbook) I vaguelly remember one of the sites I went to said Something that if you pirated any of the things from the site, they would ban you from the site, and have the name internet pirate or internet thief or something like that imprinted after your E-mail address, so everyone you e-mailed or went to on a web sight would see...what are the lega; ins and outs here, I know next to nothing about the internet, much less internet law??
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: internet law??
Take a chill pill. You are worried over nothing. Copyright owners have much much bigger problems to worry about than someone who inadvertently downloads a few copyrighted pictures for a scrapbook. That sort of minimal copying is pretty risk free as it is nothing compared to, for example, a college student using BitTorrent or Shareaza to distribute copyrighted software, movies and songs all over the world.
In fact, if you wrote and asked permission it is entirely possible and likely that the copyright owner would not even feel it worth a reply.
There is so much copyright infringement going on every day on the Internet, as you will see when you are on it longer, and it is so quick and easy and unstoppable that your infringement is insignificant in comparison.
The stuff about appending "thief" to your email address is sheer BS. Who told you that nonsense?
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