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John B A. Fac Dent J 2014; 5: 158–163

Intellectual property is 'owned, bought and sold.' Despite it being so very easy to 'screenshot' anything and everything on the Internet, violations may result in damages awarded for 'lost revenue and royalties plus expenses'. This is regardless as to whether or not the resource is used for scholarly purposes only. The bar for having breached intellectual policy is set low, on balance of probabilities. Software is constantly being refined to identify such violations. Web crawler software identified students from King's College London that used a medical image (gettyimages®) without permission. They were invoiced for £7,500. Then, Uckfield Community Technical College were fined £23,000 for copyright infringement. Internal use of such intellectual property, however, may be covered. Under a Creative Commons licence, resource may be imported from, for example, morgueFile and Jorum (free open educational resources). An illuminating angle on this subject was the cost levied for legally posting screenshots on slideshare. Despite the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) agreement, three UK newspapers required a £50 fee, and the New York Times requested $375 and a further sum of $10,000 per year thereafter.