Re: Screenshots of GUI: copyrighted?

[Sandy Harris <sandy -at- storm -dot- ca>]

"Hart, Geoff" wrote:
> 
> Diane Boos reports: <<One thing surprised me. I have taken classes in web
> development and graphics. We were told to copy pictures and/or code then
> alter it. This was supposed to prevent copyright violation. ...
> 
> Your professor was wrong, and is dangerously and perhaps irresponsibly
> misleading ...

Indeed.

There's a copyright FAQ at:
http://faqs.org/faqs/law/copyright/faq/

Somewhat to my surprise, when I searched for that I found half a dozen others,
including one from the US Copyright Office and one from Stanford:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/library/faq.html
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/faq.html

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