02-25-2012, 04:53 PM
MountainMan Wrote:Drugs are not pictures, they are proprietary inventions under patent law, not copywrite. I practiced medicine for thirty years, and I know how it works. I also know that after a mere seven years those patent rights expire and it's a free-for-all.
Bing images all belong to Bing, according the "properties" label that pops up, and you get the image itself, not a site.
It's obvious from the anxious tone of this discussion that we will no longer be seeing many - if any - "public images" without a major change in policy, because very few images that I have seen posted here from other sites give any credit to the originator. Too bad, because this is largely a visual hobby and very much a visual forum.
I was not speaking about the drugs themselves, but the information "literature" that goes with them.
I stand corrected on the Bing images. I had (mistakenly) assumed that you were speaking of the Google-type image search, which turns up other people's images, which are - rightly or wrongly - assumed to be in compliance with copyright permissions.
For the last point, I think Don summed it up pretty well. We use these discussions as a self-check, not as an opportunity to become the picture police.
Andrew