John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963. He was in Dallas, Texas, attempting to strengthen his political support. He sat in an open limousine with Governor John Connally and his wife, and his wife Jackie. The limousine was on Elm Street, passing the Stemmons Freeway sign at 12:30 in the afternoon. The ten mile ride into the city of Dallas was cut short when three shots were fired, as the limousine was in front of Dealey Plaza. The first shot hit Kennedy in the neck, and the second in the back of the head (the fatal shot.) The third shot hit Governor Connally in the back. The president was rushed to Parkline Memorial Hospital, where he died quickly, at one o'clock in the afternoon. Forty-five minutes after the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. The Dallas police spent hours interrogating Oswald, and came to no conclusions; he was charged with the murder of President Kennedy. On November 24, 1963, Oswald was to be taken to the Texas State Prison. As he stood in the garage of the police building, he was shot by Jack Ruby, in front of hundreds of witnesses, as well as the whole world, who was watching on television. A quote from Kennedy's final speech, which he made on the day of his death: "So I am glad to come to this state which has played such a significant role in so many efforts in this century, and to say that here in Fort Worth you people will be playing a major role in the maintenance of the security of the United States for the next ten years. I am confident, as I look to the future, that our chances for security, our chances for peace, are better than they have been in the past. And the reason is because we are stronger. And with that strength is a determination to not only maintain the peace, but also the vital interests of the United States. To that great cause, [we] and the United States are committed. Thank you."
Dear Steve: Thanks for your quick response. I'll try to answer your questions as best as I can from our point of view and give you some pointers for more information. From a legal point of view, any type of content that is under copyright should not be used without permission of the copyright holder of the image. Copyright laws have been set up to protect the rights of the creator or owner of the images (these laws also relate to music, art, text, etc). All of that said, it's best to check with a source before linking it to a site. I'll send you another note with some pages on copyright info. Some other issues that concerned us. *There was no credit for the picture. *We change our graphics often, since we no longer have the photo on our site your students page no longer displays correctly. This practice makes it difficult to maintain a page for a period of time since your student has no control over the maintenance of another site. *This type of linking creates traffic on our server (we had about 6,000 hits generated on our report last month from this page). While our server can handle this, imagine if someone at a major consumer site did this. *Our site contained notices of copyright (http://www.archivefilms.com/indexCopy.html) for all of the content on the site. Keep in mind that we are in the business of licensing photographs and footage and charge a fee for our images. Revenues from the images go towards paying our photographers and photo sources, maintaining our collection, and paying our staff. Protection of our material is essential for us. From an ethical point of view, it's always best to ask permission before using an image. My advice would be to educate your students on issues of copyright and teach them how to correctly gather material. There are some excellent sources for content, for example, your student probably could have found an excellent shot of JFK from the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov) at no cost. Thanks for responding so quickly. Understanding of Copyright issues are extrememly important as they relate to most created works including photography, art, text, and even software code. Students should feel comfortable putting up sites with the knowledge that they've ethically obtained and correctly acknowledged the content being used. Feel free to contact me any time. Sincerely, Reid Rossman Archive Films/Archive Photos 1) Question from Steve Bergen: Are you saying that it is improper to create links of the form (a href="http://www.xxx.jpeg")Graphic(/a)related to project without permission of the webmaster Answer from Reid Rossman: I think this is both an ethical and legal consideration. Imagine, for example, that you are an artist, and someone comes along and uses your creation without notifying you or acknowledging your creation. Just because you can technically do it, doesn't mean that it's right. In my opinion, it's improper to use something without asking. 2) Question from Steve Bergen: it sounds like you are making no distincting between A HREF links and IMG SRC links -- my understanding of the IMG SRC command is that the graphic is NOT being duplicated, but simply viewed on another web page? Answer from Reid Rossman: I'm not a technician. The page that I saw used a graphic as if it were part of the host page. Use of photos, outside of the context of our own site, is not permitted. That's why we put up notices. 3) Question from Steve Bergen: can i have your permission to share our dialogue with a variety of students and computer colleagues out there in cyberspace? Answer from Reid Rossman: Sure. if you're interested in learning more abour stock photography you might also want to check out http://www.stockphoto.net. There's a pretty active newsgroup that talks about these issues regularly. Thanks for your speedy attention with all of this. You need to be careful what you use or borrow. Here are some sites of interest: Photography and Copyright Info: www.copyright.com www.pacaoffice.org www.loc.gov also, try a Yahoo search for "Copyright Information". You'll find some interesting results. Some Photo Sources of Interest (besides us). Some of these may charge, but this is worth a look: www.publishersdepot.com www.photodisc.com www.digitalstock.com www.corbis.com www.loc.gov www.elibrary.com I certainly encourage students to learn the wide variety of content at their fingertips.
