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Subject:RE: Screenshots of GUI: copyrighted? From:MMcCallister -at- ontrack -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:02:51 -0600
Matt Floyd sayeth:
<<To my surprise, many third party titles did not contain
acknowledgements of permissions or even copyright information for the GUI
captures contained in the book...
It seems like a stretch of fair use to me to include screen elements on
every other page...>>
Acknowledged or not, I'd bet strongly that permissions were obtained. Publishers are notably skittish about lawsuits from deep pockets. When I did my Computer Certification Guide for Arco Press, I wanted to have shots of each "cover" page for a certification program's website. The lawyers told my editor I would need signed permission from each site to include the screen shot. Since we were running on some very tight deadlines, and I couldn't imagine trying to keep track of some 200 permission slips, we dropped that idea fast. 8-(
Valuable lesson, that.
Mike McCallister
Senior Documentation Specialist
Ontrack Data International
mmccallister -at- ontrack -dot- com
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