Anyone willing to share their pictures for a presentation on Scottish national dress?

[ratspike]

Bob, @ratspike help me out here - is nobody allowed to show a projection of Internet pages to a group of people? How would one ever supervise/ enforce/ manage that? Since the Internet is available to all of those people individually, isn't it available to them as a group?

So again, as IANAL I'm not an expert on copyright law and don't know the specifics of what would be considered fair use. I *think* that a slideshow for educational purposes would likely fall under fair use. I *think* that a slideshow as part of, say, a sales pitch would not. And no, because it's available on the internet that doesn't mean that someone has the legal right to use it for their own purposes.

Would the laws vary in different nations? Under those circumstances, would the laws of the U.S. apply because our site's hosted there, the laws of Canada apply because it's owned here, the laws of the nation where it's being shown apply, or the laws of the nation from which the OP made the posting?

Copyright law does vary from one country to the next. If, for example, I post a photo here, then where the site is hosted and where Steve lives don't matter. That photo is my intellectual property, I own the copyright, and I control it's use unless there's something in the TOS that I agreed to when I joined that transfers my copyright to someone else.

Fascinating area about which I'd love to learn a lot more, but my understanding has always been that once I upload it, I've lost control of it in the same way that when I broadcast something, it's private all the way to the tip of my antenna and after that, anyone can listen to it or see it. Canada's Supreme Court for one, made that decision back in the '80s as I recall.

Yeah, sad but true, once something is uploaded to teh internets you really do lose a lot of control over it. That doesn't mean that you don't still retain copyright, only that lots of people don't understand or don't care, and happily use said internets as their own personal, free, stock service. I'm not familiar with Canadian copyright law because, again, IANAL, but I'd be a little surprised if it treats copyright that way.