A lobbying group recently released "The Netsurfer's Simple Guide To Copyrights",
which distills UK, US and EU copyright law into five maxims:
If you didn't create a written work, art, photograph, or music, or obtain distribution
rights to it, you don't own it.
If you don't own it, you can't copy or distribute it.
The author or owner must explicitly relinquish rights for a work to be placed
in the public domain.
Fair useallows copying of small portions of a work without the owner's permission,
but only for education, and news reporting.
When in doubt, ask for permission to use a work.
Any reproduction of illustrations or text (electronic, mechanical, recording
by an information storage and retrieval system, derivative art and artistic
rendering) or otherwise from this website is strictly prohibited. Any use of
this information requires the express permission in writing
from Eclipse.
Well that’s the legal stuff.
On a lighter note, if your purpose is non-profit, educational or conservation
oriented, and if you ask, we'll probably say yes.
