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<blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 5618046" data-attributes="member: 447"><p>A couple of notes:</p><p></p><p>The only matter relevant to copyrights that's in the US Constitution is in Article I, Section 8: the bit where the US Congress is granted the power "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries...." The actual copyright laws are not part of the US Constitution; they are US Federal law (Title 17 of the United States Code -- US Federal statutes).</p><p></p><p>The "loud stereo" thing is a flawed analogy, as already pointed out.</p><p></p><p>Even if the thumbnail images <em>are</em> fair use (something defined in US Federal law, not in the Constitution), it's Obsidian Portal's right to determine how they'll respond to a notification that copyrighted artwork is being distributed (at whatever size, resolution, or what have you) by one of their account holders.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.obsidianportal.com/terms-of-service" target="_blank">https://www.obsidianportal.com/terms-of-service</a></p><p></p><p>Something tells me OP (like, I think, most contributor-centered web services) would prefer to play it safe as regards the IP of third parties. And I note that OP wasn't asked to, and didn't, go and delete the images in question -- the account holder did, apparently out of spite or something. So if anybody's being unreasonable here, I have a very hard time seeing how in heck it could be Paizo (and it seems to me that OP is "A-OK" too).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marius Delphus, post: 5618046, member: 447"] A couple of notes: The only matter relevant to copyrights that's in the US Constitution is in Article I, Section 8: the bit where the US Congress is granted the power "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries...." The actual copyright laws are not part of the US Constitution; they are US Federal law (Title 17 of the United States Code -- US Federal statutes). The "loud stereo" thing is a flawed analogy, as already pointed out. Even if the thumbnail images [I]are[/I] fair use (something defined in US Federal law, not in the Constitution), it's Obsidian Portal's right to determine how they'll respond to a notification that copyrighted artwork is being distributed (at whatever size, resolution, or what have you) by one of their account holders. [url]https://www.obsidianportal.com/terms-of-service[/url] Something tells me OP (like, I think, most contributor-centered web services) would prefer to play it safe as regards the IP of third parties. And I note that OP wasn't asked to, and didn't, go and delete the images in question -- the account holder did, apparently out of spite or something. So if anybody's being unreasonable here, I have a very hard time seeing how in heck it could be Paizo (and it seems to me that OP is "A-OK" too). [/QUOTE]
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