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Jay;
Thanks for reposting that. It's one of the things I have saved, fun to go back and look at some of the carb that were posted.

Great stuff. I need to go on Stan's Stromberg OF website and make copies of all the pictures before the site gets taken down. I tried to talk Stan into putting his Ruckstell site back up so that I could do the same with it, but he was worried that if he put the site up again that people would start bugging him to rebuild their Ruckstells and he didn't want to get back into that business.

And I’m interested in a ecopy of Stan’s Stromberg OF set up and maintenance page. Please help

All of Stan's Web stuff is copyrighted and that lasts beyond the copywriter's passing. For everyone worried about handing over Mel Miller plans because they're copyrighted, or if you're NOT worried about it, well, the same applies to copying something off of the Web that has been copyrighted.

My feeble understanding of copyright is that it's OK to make a copy of a photo for one's personal use. Where the line gets crossed is if the copied photo gets used in some way where money changes hands (hence Stan's admonishment about using the photos for Ebay listings).

From this https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/b ... bsite.html and many other similar sites, the answer though not necessarily self-evident or obvious is: no, you cannot copy content from a website unless you have secured the author/creator's permission.

I don't think the above will stop anyone from copying Stan's web pages that are intent on doing so, but you should understand that doing so without permission is not legal no matter how it is justified in one's mind. A casual perusal of the subject will verify this.

The fact that money is not changing hands has absolutely nothing to do with the copying of Web-based copyrighted material whatsoever. With respect to photos that Stan chose to share on a public site for educational purposes, this would fall under the "fair use doctrine" and copying HIS photos from THIS site would be fair game. Copying wholesale content from his personal website does not constitute "fair use".

Good article, thanks for the clarification.

For those that want to watch the memorial service live, it is June 1, 2021, at 1:45 pm Montana time, streamed live via this link

https://vimeo.com/556683791

it can also be accessed through https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituarie ... of-helena/

ANYONE who wants to copy ANYTHING I have posted on this Forum is free to copy whatever they want. I posted here for the benefit of the hobby and to keep this stuff Alive!

CudaMan wrote: ↑

Sat May 29, 2021 10:13 pm

Great stuff. I need to go on Stan's Stromberg OF website and make copies of all the pictures before the site gets taken down. I tried to talk Stan into putting his Ruckstell site back up so that I could do the same with it, but he was worried that if he put the site up again that people would start bugging him to rebuild their Ruckstells and he didn't want to get back into that business.

Ask and ye shall receive....


https://web.archive.org/web/20100403152 ... stell.com/