In
May 2001, I joined a wonderful group called Integrity on the
Net. We were a group of women from all over the world who stands
for, above all - as the name of the group says for itself - INTEGRITY.
According to the dictionary Integrity means "quality of
being honest and morally upright".
The
cyber space should be a place for everyone to enjoy and have
fun, but unfortunately this is not always a reality. Many people
who create their websites are not aware of copyrights issues
and the importance of giving proper credit or being original,
but this will not be a problem if they all learn about it and
start respecting.
Some
people simply look at other people's sources or copy entire sites
in order to modify them to make their own. If we like a particular
layout, why not trying to learn how to do it instead of copying?
Many
people still steal bandwidth by direct linking to images. This
causes a lot of trouble to many people who are forced to pay
fees for exceeding their bandwidth limit and some even close
their sites.
If
all webmasters respected copyrights and abided by the terms of
use of the graphics they download or purchase, there would not
be so many beautiful sites closing, specially in the country
community.
Let's
all learn to have respect for others, be original and show integrity
on the net.
Please,
do not copy sources. Please, do not copy text. Please, do not
download images without permission. Please, do not use graphics
from a graphics site that requires registration if you are not
a registered member. Please, respect others if you want them
to respect you. Please, take a some time to think about it. Please...
I would
like to say a huge "Thank you!" to all graphic artists
who worked hard to make beautiful graphics for us to use them
in our pages.
Unfortunately,
the IOTN site has closed.
Please,
take some time to visit the sites below. There is a lot of things
you can learn, even if you already know a lot about copyright,
plagiarism, theft, originality etc, there is always something
we can learn.
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