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Originally posted by dready
I still think they would be considered a secondary producer as they are the one publishing the content on their sites.
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You are correct sir... what we believe the definition of "produce" means as laymen, is different than what the word means in legal copyright world.
Words like reproduce, distribute, and produce, we look at more tangibly.. like we photocopy a paper document, that's reproduction. We hand out that paper to someone, that's distribution, and if we created the text on the paper, then that's production.
In the copyright language, taking an image from a CD and copying it to your website is reproducing it. When someone is downloading the image from you site for a web page, you are distributing it. When you make it available for people where another copy is made (ie. the image is downloaded), then that's "production".... but not in the sense of the photographer who first shot the image.
It is confusing, and i may be slightly off, but the point is what you think of words like "produce" are different then what the law or legal versions mean.. and lawyers and lawmakers all speak the same language, so they understand what it means.
This is why attorneys help to convey the legal terms to us.
-brandon