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Karen,

Do you know how I can contact them?

I do not.

Perhaps there is contact information available at the location from which you "shared" these items.

I am willing to pay for the tubes I shared accidentally.

While that is admirable going forward, there are couple of things to note.

First, be sure whatever license you obtain for these items permits you to share them with your group. A license "for personal use" is likely not sufficient.

Second, the phrase "shared accidentally" nags at me. The sharing wasn't an accident. I think what you are trying to say is that you accidentally mistook a copyrighted work for one that is in the public domain.

Be aware that in copyright law every literary or artistic work carries an automatic copyright at the moment of its creation, owned by the creator of the work. For the work to be available for free public use requires an explicit statement (license) by the owner of the copyright. This has been true for decades now in U.S. law, and in every country that conforms to the international agreement on copyrights (the Berne Convention).


That does put a substantial burden on the person who wants to share a work that someone else created. For some kinds of works there are clearing houses that you can go to for licensing without needing to negotiate individually with the work's creator. I don't know what type of things these "tubes" are, but it may be more challenging to determine their ownership, especially if you are finding them in places where they've already been improperly shared.

The best solution is as simple as it is disappointing: when in doubt, don't.

Shal


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