Protection of authorship / Copyright
The content of www.radiomuseum.org traces back to
numerous sources. Some are old radio catalogs,
radio leaflets, antique radio models etc. The
basics were about 3000 pictures from the
book «Radiokatalog». The author
has paid for the copyright for a portion of these
pictures – under the condition that this right
is
only used by himself. The holder of this
copyright is entitled to institute proceedings
against violators of the copyright, independent
of the author.
Most of the other radio pictures, radio schemes
(schematics), texts about radios etc. have been
uploaded with great effort and in
an unselfish way by other members. Some people
repeatedly ignore the fact that texts, data,
graphics and sound on the Internet are the
result
of great creativity and labor. Even being
ignorant of the existence of a copyright one
is
not exempt from the consequences when one violates
the copyright – which itself does not have to be
declared explicitly.
The problem
Unfortunately all these creative radio
collectors
have to face the fact that other people or
institutions copy, link and/or use in other ways
their work without citation and approval. Doing
so, these offenders do not respect the fact that
all of this work on the Internet is
copyrighted.
We support the «Federal Federation of the
Agencies for Press Picture Material and Picture
Archives» and adopt their text from
www.bvpa.org:
„Does the freedom of the Internet also
imply the freedom of usurping and illegally
using other peoples' work?
We say no to stealing
pictures from the Internet
Anyone who uses photos or graphics from the web,
either commercially or privately, is obliged to
make sure that the author of this work approves
of its usage. It should never be the case that
websites should base their success on stolen
material.
We, for instance, have been authorized by the
holder of the rights to use the radio schemes of
Lange. The Radiomuseum.org asks you as a radio
collector to upload only information, radio
pictures etc. which are your own work - free of
copyright - for example old newspapers, radio
brochures, leaflets from radio makers etc., or
material which you are authorized to use. If you
use material that is not yours, you are advised
to name the source.
Moreover, we declare that we do not use your
publications commercially.
This is a portal created by a radio amateur and
radio collector, and many other radio collectors
and radio amateurs by the thousands have
contributed additional information.
Luzern, 22nd December 2002 (Ernst Erb HB9RXQ).
