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[Pacific Edge Permaculture <pacedge@magna.com.au>]

Hello April and others...

on 25/7/00 11:37 AM, askpv at askpv@ozemail.com.au wrote:

> I found Plants for a Future being re-presented on a new web page.
> at first i thought, GREAT, some new, additional resources for people,
> but no, it was good old Plants for a Future...
> 
> It is illegal and unethical to re-present someone else's web pages.

Sometimes web pages may be 'mirrored' on another website in another
location.

To get to your point, April, this is done in agreement with the original
website.

I know people might be full-up with copyright issues regarding the
discussions to clarify copyright over the use of the permaculture logo, but,
April, your email raises the issue once again.

Under the terms of the Copyright Act (Australia) and, as I understand it,
the Berne Convention on international copyright under which national
copyright legislation is enacted, the creator of the webpage (in this case,
the content producers and website designers for Plants for the Future or the
organisation itself if the creators have signed copyright over to them)
would have to agree that their work can be republished on another website.
only then could the new site 'legally' copy and publish the information.

The issue is pertinent, possibly, to websites using frames. It has been
suggested, but never tested to my knowledge, that these websites, by
bringing in information produced elsewhere and  formatting it within the
frame set-up, might be co-opting copyrighted material and republishing it as
the frame-websites own.


> I have had this happen to my page many times over

How did you deal with this, April?

Regards to all...

...Russ Grayson


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