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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you send me an image by email and I display it on a website without permission, I am violating your copyright.

Unless the image is already copyrighted, it takes publishing to provide a claim of copyright. Is email publishing? What if it’s a listserv with 300 recipients?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In the 181 countries party to the Berne Convention, the image is copyrighted as soon as it is recorded to a physical medium. Yes, that includes a memory card, hard drive, etc....