Weblog Update: Slightly Off Kilter #1833

[Vicki Brown]

Recent updates to Slightly Off Kilter weblog:

"Fair Use?"
Posted on 20150306 by Vicki Brown
In category: Show & Tell

PSA: Avoid cartoonstock.com. I thought use of a cartoon, with full
attributionon an unpublicized personal page constituted "fair use".

Cartoon Stock disagrees.

Fair enough.

But without first offering me a chance to take the cartoon down or pay
for a license, they sent a threatening letter insisting on a
"settlement penalty". My attempt to settle amicably (by paying the
licensing fee for past use and immediate take down) was met with a
form letter. My response to that form letter was the identical form
letter.

Apparently, Cartoon Stock Lawyers have nothing better to do than to go
after private individuals on backwater unpublicized pages.

I'll pay their penalty fee, but it comes with a cost to them: this
post.

By my reading of to the 7 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on exclusive
rights: Fair use, this blog post would definitely count as fair use,
being for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting...,
however, I do not trust the robots at Cartoonstock.com, so I will link
to their toon rather than uploading it.

[IMAGE]

Avoid CartoonStock.com. ...

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