I have created a mock-up home page for a website for a university assignment. The website is for music streaming and is entirely fictitious.
In order to make my mock-up look good, rather than just having "image will be here" written everywhere, I was told to actually put images in there.
I have used some album artwork, and was told by my lecturer that this would be fine as long as I specified that this was copyrighted work and would be paid for if the website was published, and also cited the copyright holder. He also said something about Wikipedia’s use of artwork, and see what they said about it, and write something echoing what they say.
I’m just double checking if this is definitely OK?
Please note that I am in the UK.
Strictly speaking, your lecturer is incorrect insofar as citation does not affect copyright infringement. For example, if you make copies of a CD and try to sell it, it doesn’t matter how much you cite the copyright owner.
That being said, the likelihood of a copyright owner spending money to pursue a student in an infringement is probably nil. And that’s assuming that the copyright owner even finds out about the fictitious website. How can they? You’re probably worried over nothing, in my opinion.
November 14th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Strictly speaking, your lecturer is incorrect insofar as citation does not affect copyright infringement. For example, if you make copies of a CD and try to sell it, it doesn’t matter how much you cite the copyright owner.
That being said, the likelihood of a copyright owner spending money to pursue a student in an infringement is probably nil. And that’s assuming that the copyright owner even finds out about the fictitious website. How can they? You’re probably worried over nothing, in my opinion.
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I’m an attorney.