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Originally Posted by Crys
Did you get permission from mightymac.org to use this photo or from the Maritime Museum to use its front-page content? If not, please remove the photo and change the text, perhaps to reflect some of your own experiences at the museum.
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Don't worry, I'll work on getting the permission Crys is insisting on this coming Monday. Left messages for them a couple of times this last week saying we would be highlighting this thread in the Water Cooler News. As discussed with Crys, I do not believe this is something we'd get sued over...promoting them!
Nevertheless, as a rule, please give attribution at the least, and many of us need to do a better overall job of "fair use" - in which we might quote a news article for a sentence or two, then give our own synopsis of events...our own take on what we're posting about. Simply posting an entire news story from the site of a newspaper might be inviting trouble sooner or later.
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"Ask the Pro" article from OnYourMark has some good info on the use of copyright images. We'll do something similar for the use of text. Wikipedia is generally a good bet, with attribution.
Thanks for posting the info about the museum. A state employee who wrote a book on Wisconsin museums was asked on public radio in the last year if he had one "must see" museum. The Wisconsin Maritime Museum was his reply.
Regards,
Keith
