• Anything ‘published’ on the web is viewed as intellectual property and, regardless of whether it displays a copyright symbol or not, is therefore copyrighted by the originator. The only exception to this is if there is a “free and unrestricted reuse” statement associated with the work.

    In order to protect our members and TFL from possible litigation, all members must abide by the following new rules:

    1. Copying and pasting entire articles from another site to TFL is strictly prohibited. The same applies to articles from print or other media, and to posting photographs taken of copyrighted pages or other media.

    2. Copyright law provides for “fair use” of portions of a copyrighted work. You can copy no more than a SINGLE paragraph from the article to your post (3 or 4 sentences at most).

    3. You must provide a link to the article along with the name of website. For example: ww.xxx.yyy/zzz (The Lower Thumbsuck Daily News).

    4. You must provide, in your own words, a brief summary of the article AND your reasons for believing it will be of interest to TFL members. Failure to do so may result in the thread being closed or your post being deleted as a “cut and paste drive by.”

    5. Photographs and other images are also copyrighted. "Hotlinking" of images (so that it appears in your message) from other sites is also prohibited unless you own rights to the image. If you wish to share an image, provide a clickable link to it.

    Posts that do not follow these new guidelines will be altered or deleted by staff. Members who continue to violate this policy may lose their posting privileges at TFL.

    Thank you for your cooperation and your participation in TFL, the leading online forum for firearms enthusiasts.

new guy making sure i follow rules

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stuckinthe60s

New member
your rules say I cant post pics w/o a link to it.
I have over 600 pics I have been posting on the net for decades. most come from my hardrive and from my personal stash.
nothing I have is anyone elses that is copywrited.

the question I have is some pics have web tags that were posted decades ago by other users in other forums, so its not really the websites pic. it was someone elses.

can those be used here to convey a thought during a discussion?
I/e: this is what a Winchester aa shotshell looks like. and we paste it in.

thanks in advance.
 
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If you actually took the picture, then you own the intellectual property rights to it and can use it as you see fit.

If, however, you collected the picture from somewhere, and someone else created it, that means you do NOT own the intellectual property rights to it, and you need to comply with our rules as stated.

If, however, it's a picture that is stated as being in the public domain, and is free to use, then you can use it, as long as you don't take credit for creating it.
 
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