Comments on: ownership of a web page http://www.rebron.org/2007/02/23/ownership-of-a-web-page/ Every day life - Work - Ironman Training Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:32:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: rebron http://www.rebron.org/2007/02/23/ownership-of-a-web-page/#comment-25851 rebron Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:12:01 +0000 http://www.rebron.org/2007/02/23/ownership-of-a-web-page/#comment-25851 We're saying the same thing. I'll take a look at your TOS. Once a page is downloaded you can do what you want with it for personal/fair use and through the terms provided by the owner of that page/service. Just as with a tv show, if you record it and want to interlace a family video with that show, use it's theme song, whatever, that yours to do what you want. You just can't sell that work. You could even post that work on YouTube. The easy measure is if you're not looking to make money off the work/web page/tv show that you download or record, you're fine. But that tv show, web page is technically yours. We’re saying the same thing. I’ll take a look at your TOS. Once a page is downloaded you can do what you want with it for personal/fair use and through the terms provided by the owner of that page/service.

Just as with a tv show, if you record it and want to interlace a family video with that show, use it’s theme song, whatever, that yours to do what you want. You just can’t sell that work. You could even post that work on YouTube.

The easy measure is if you’re not looking to make money off the work/web page/tv show that you download or record, you’re fine. But that tv show, web page is technically yours.

]]> By: Kate http://www.rebron.org/2007/02/23/ownership-of-a-web-page/#comment-25787 Kate Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:29:17 +0000 http://www.rebron.org/2007/02/23/ownership-of-a-web-page/#comment-25787 > Once a user downloads a web page, that web page is technically theirs to do whatever they want, print it, mark it up, annotate it, etc This is not technically true. A web page is no different than a TV show which although can be recorded, still retains its copyright. When you download a page to your computer you are making a copy of it and that copy is subject to copyright laws. I'm not an attorney, but I work for a company that is grappling with this very issue. The company is called JumpKNowledge (located at http://jkn.com) and we have a service that allows anyone to annotate any web page. Wait, you may ask, how can you offer that service, if you just said that copying a web page is still subject to copyright? The answer is simple: you are the one who is responsible to judge if the annotation complies with "fair use" statutes. The same rule applies to a web page that you download locally. Although you can annotate it, the web page never loses it's copyright. I annotated jkn's Terms of Service so you can understand how we handled this issue. You can read it here: http://jkn.com/View?j=776452.623047127090 Kate jkn.com JumpKnowledge > Once a user downloads a web page, that web page is technically theirs to do whatever they want, print it, mark it up, annotate it, etc

This is not technically true. A web page is no different than a TV show which although can be recorded, still retains its copyright. When you download a page to your computer you are making a copy of it and that copy is subject to copyright laws.

I’m not an attorney, but I work for a company that is grappling with this very issue. The company is called JumpKNowledge (located at http://jkn.com) and we have a service that allows anyone to annotate any web page.

Wait, you may ask, how can you offer that service, if you just said that copying a web page is still subject to copyright? The answer is simple: you are the one who is responsible to judge if the annotation complies with “fair use” statutes. The same rule applies to a web page that you download locally. Although you can annotate it, the web page never loses it’s copyright.

I annotated jkn’s Terms of Service so you can understand how we handled this issue. You can read it here: http://jkn.com/View?j=776452.623047127090

Kate
jkn.com
JumpKnowledge

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