Copywrite laws are they to vague?

[Pax]

Originally posted by Baron Grazic:
What I don't understand about this discussion is why Marvel or their 'reprentatives' sent the letter in the first place, when on their web site is "The Freedom Force Webkit contains awesome assets to help you build your own fan site".

So they will help you build your own fansite but acording to the letter Rojero received, he "is not permitted to copy or reproduce the copyrighted images or distinctive likenesses of Marvel's characters, nor use the registered trademarks associated with those characters such as Spider-Man, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, etc".

Why the hell do they have the fan site web kit, if you can not use their images on the web?
If they have tools avaiable for people to use, they can't then claim that their images are copyrighted, can they?

I'm sure the SKINS wer enot in the fansite webkit, though. The webkit would contain a liscense -- at least implicit -- allowing the INCLUDED images to be used, without alterations beyond resizing to fit the website, as-is.

When you go beyond that liscense ... the whole thing can be revoked, and ALL your use of such images can become a problem -- even the ones used as-is from the website kit.