My new web site

[mitch91 0]

Please visit my webpage at the address www.alexs-coins.tk or click either the link abouve or the one in my sig. Please note this is only 4 hours of work will be better soon

[Millimoo 0]

Great site!

How about some pictures or scans of some of your favorite coins, and some info about them?

Dave

[Levi_NI 0]

Not a bad wee site, tho I would be careful about what advice you hand out.. or at leaste make sure it is totally acurate.

As I said, good job, and I will visit reguarly to see how you are progressing.

[mitch91 0]

Great site!

How about some pictures or scans of some of your favorite coins, and some info about them?

Dave

I will be doing this but i am waiting for my new scanner after easter although i can maybe get 6 or 7 before then

[mitch91 0]

This is going good I have had 18 more hits today in the last 30 mins

[Chris Perkins 223]

Well done!

By the way, what country is the top level domain .tk ?

[Levi_NI 0]

TK is a wee island country somewhere in the Pacific. It sells its domain name to companies, but you can also 'rent' them for free.... Tokelau is the name of it.

[mitch91 0]

www.dot.tk Here You are allowed 1 free site per email. Tokelau is right Levi

[Emperor Oli 0]

I remember when Tuvalu sold its internet suffix (.tv) back in 98 for a revenue of about $100million per year. I think that money was something like 20 times its annual budget.

Edited February 7, 2005 by Emperor Oli

[TomGoodheart 373]

Hi Alex,

Nice site for four hours work! Something that I find useful and recommend to others is to nick other people's pictures. Perhaps I'll rephrase that...

I have managed to compile a useful pictorial coin history by saving images of things I'm interested in from webpages. I use the Spink reference number (though of course I expect you'll want to use the CCGB reference - I have to use Spink until Chris publishes a book on Charles I hammered shillings! (and no, sadly I don't presently have time to write one!) and brief source and price details as a name.

That way, you if you discover a coin you don't have you can then compare the condition and price with your 'reference' finds to help decide if it's good value or not. It's also educational. You can tailor the history to your personal interests. You don't have to rely on your memory alone to decide whether you've found something that you've never seen before and if it's unusual...

Of course the drawback is that it uses up memory. It's a lot easier if, like me, you specialise in a very narrow area. If you just collect 'British coins' you may need to save stuff to disk (or one of those memory stick things) pretty soon!

[Master Jmd 50]

Isn't that breaching the copyright laws?

[Emperor Oli 0]

Not every image is copyrighted, but even if they were, I can hardly see them suing anyone over it.

Edited February 8, 2005 by Emperor Oli

[Andy Bruce 0]

Hi Alex - coming along nicely.

Well done - not bad for a few hours work!

[mitch91 0]

Thanks everyone

[mint_mark 3]

Not every image is copyrighted

Actually, every image is copyrighted, from the moment it is created. This is true for any creative work. The copyright is owned by the creator, but they can explicitly give up their rights by declaring the work to be "public domain".

So, in the absence of any other information, any image (or words or music or film etc) is copyrighted by someone and there is no permission for anyone to copy it... although some limited uses are allowed.

If you want you can read it from the horse's mouth at http://www.patent.gov.uk/copy/definition.htm

[Emperor Oli 0]

Ah interesting, I assumed one had to apply for it.

[mitch91 0]

Ah interesting, I assumed one had to apply for it.

Apply what for?

[Emperor Oli 0]

If you looked at the previous post, I was referring to copyright.

[mitch91 0]

Sorry I missed it

[mitch91 0]

My site just got its 100th visitor today although in my site building area it says 250. Woohoo

[william 0]

well done on your 100th visitor!

[Andy Bruce 0]

Yep - well done, Alex!

[tubandpud 0]

Hi Mitch,

I am now your l00 + ? visitor. I am new to collecting and get very lost in the experts' terminolagy'

although I find it interesting and trying to understand most of what I read.

Great site for total beginnners - down to earth language, even for children. By the way, I am collecting

mainly pre-decimal and decimal English coins.

Will watch progress with your site.

[TomGoodheart 373]

Hmmm.... my understanding is that, notwithstanding copyright, there is no objection to copying a small part of something like an article or book for private use. Since the images I crib are for private use, and since they are often from places like eBay where the images are deleted shortly afterwards I do not anticipate any problems.

I will of course let you all know if I need to raise bail!!

[mint_mark 3]

Tom, I believe the third question at http://www.patent.gov.uk/copy/indetail/usi...ngcopyright.htm might describe your situation. In the UK law this is called "fair dealing"... on the internet you will often see references to "fair use" which is a similar set of exemptions in US copyright law. Most countries have signed the Berne Convention, which means all their copyright laws are broadly compatible, but they differ in details like this.

Anyway, private use seems OK and small portions for "quoting" seems OK, but if you collected complete images of, say, varieties of pennies, and then published them on web pages for anyone to refer to, that would probably not be OK. You would either need to create all the images yourself, or get permission from each of the photographers.

I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice!

When I first started buying on ebay I wondered about the idea of an entirely virtual coin collection... buy coins, photograph them, sell them again and keep the photos. The problem is you can't capture all the coin in two photos... there will always be some details not visible. Also, buying and selling coins in quick succession is a great way to lose money