What are the implications of replicating information that is publicly displayed on websites? Is information posted in the public domain free to be copied and posted? If you quote the source does this make a difference legally, regarding IP? How does the situation look like in a Hong kong / chinese law context? ------------------ The more the detail the better the answer! Thank you very much.|||Information posted on a website is not in the public domain unless specifically stated as being so. I have a website full of information on a particular topic. All that information, including images, is accessible to everyone, but the copyright is 100% mine. Crediting where you took the copyright information from makes no difference - you cannot use it without my permission. You cannot claim innocence of theft by stating where you stole the goods! There are no material differences between UK / Hong Kong law on this. Chinese mainland law is also the same. However it is not well enforced. That said, I have managed to use the law to have material which was stolen from my site removed from a Chinese website .|||There is always the chance that a claim of copyright infringement can be made.|||Alot of stuff appearing in a Webpage is of poor quality for Copying.. It may look good in a webpage..how-ever a copy becomes degraded.. I would say COPYRIGHTS are obvious..there should be no question.. Then there is the Public Domain..as too how things go awry.. === It seems that COPYRIGHTS are more concerned with Distribution.. I don't think that a personal copy is much concern.. How-ever..if you set up shop..like the China Bootlegger's do.. ..or some gangs make illegal copies of music.. Distribution is illegal..[end]

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