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Originally Posted by theducks
Look on most pages.
There is a copyright statement placed by the page owner (some with limitations on what you can do with your copy).
In all cases, the owner has provided viewing access as their right  |
Sure, but that's precisely what Shaggy is arguing, if I understood him correctly. That the person who creates a web page is responsible for obtaining copyright permissions, not the one who is clicking on the web link. Before the page loads up, you have no way of knowing if it does or does not contain a copyrighted photo from Reuters, for example. Nor do you know if there will be a copyright notice at the bottom of the page, assuring you that everything is legal and kosher. The web page might turn out to be a part of Darknet, which exists to circumvent the copyright.
A better example, closer to our primary interest on this board: US citizen stumbles upon a book enthusiast forum hosted in Canada. One of the users has left a "see chapter 2" link as a reference in discussion. Once you click on that link, it turns out that you just downloaded a html format of the full-blown copy of the work that is in public domain in Canada, but not in US. There you go, an US citizen just violated the copyright by creating an unauthorized copy of the work protected by the copyright law of US.