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What is the name of your state? ... Canada
Hi everyone. I just discovered this site -- exactly what I was looking for! I tried reading a book about copyrights but it didn't really give me an answer. Hopefully somebody here can take a minute to help me
Anyway, my problem:
I just recently finished a web site that publishes tutorials on 3d game developing. I wrote it using php and mysql for simplicity, but soon realized that I could write a simple script that could make it very easy to add tutorials from other sites to the database.
The result: http://www.3delement.com/newsite
It may be down (the server isn't very reliable). I haven't launched the site yet since I'm not sure how to handle the copyrights. I questioned one of the sites where I got most of my tutorials from about it and they told me to take all of their's off. (they didn't literally say they would take legal action but it was implied)
This site I talked to also has a database of tutorials, but none of the tutorials were written by the actual staff.... It's all user contributed. So since the copyright owner is _always_ the author and not the publisher (according to this book I read) isn't it true that they can't actually do anything to me?
My original plan was to store tutorials across the net (images and all) so that I would not have to deal with broken links... it's also nice to have it organized in one place...
I credit the authors for each article and if an author doesn't want their tutorials posted then I just request that they contact me. Is that also ok? Or do I really need their permission first? I think most authors would be happy to see their tutorial published so it would be a pain to contact each one
I realize this forum is mostly for american law but... most of the sites that I'll be taking tutorials from will be american and I think in terms of copyright law, the two countries are pretty similar
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I really appreciate any help
Hi everyone. I just discovered this site -- exactly what I was looking for! I tried reading a book about copyrights but it didn't really give me an answer. Hopefully somebody here can take a minute to help me
Anyway, my problem:
I just recently finished a web site that publishes tutorials on 3d game developing. I wrote it using php and mysql for simplicity, but soon realized that I could write a simple script that could make it very easy to add tutorials from other sites to the database.
The result: http://www.3delement.com/newsite
It may be down (the server isn't very reliable). I haven't launched the site yet since I'm not sure how to handle the copyrights. I questioned one of the sites where I got most of my tutorials from about it and they told me to take all of their's off. (they didn't literally say they would take legal action but it was implied)
This site I talked to also has a database of tutorials, but none of the tutorials were written by the actual staff.... It's all user contributed. So since the copyright owner is _always_ the author and not the publisher (according to this book I read) isn't it true that they can't actually do anything to me?
My original plan was to store tutorials across the net (images and all) so that I would not have to deal with broken links... it's also nice to have it organized in one place...
I credit the authors for each article and if an author doesn't want their tutorials posted then I just request that they contact me. Is that also ok? Or do I really need their permission first? I think most authors would be happy to see their tutorial published so it would be a pain to contact each one
I realize this forum is mostly for american law but... most of the sites that I'll be taking tutorials from will be american and I think in terms of copyright law, the two countries are pretty similar
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I really appreciate any help
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