Help with welding picture

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Hey, I'm trying to find out where this picture came from.  I want to use it for a class presentation but I need to make sure it's no copyrighted.  Thanks.
Reply:Looks more like a dentist's drill than any kind of welding torch."SOUTHPAW" A wise person learns from another persons mistakes;A smart person learns from their own mistakes;But, a stupid person.............never learns.
Reply:If it is for educational use, and there is no financial benefit derived directly (ie: you are not using it in material that will be sold, it is not the principal part of a presentation for fee, it won't be used in advertising materials, etc), it is PROBABLY fair use in the US. Some materials don't qualify for educational fair use due to specific conditions of sale or license, but these are almost exclusively material sold for use in education (copying a section of a textbook is not fair use, for example) If you are a student, you are almost certainly safe for educational fair use, as long as appropriate source reference is used (or an honest attempt to identify the source is made and noted)Note that I say this knowing that fair use is being chewed up over the last few years with ridiculous decisions in court (for example, parody is explicitly protected, but there have been a several cases where decisions  went against. Ditto for short extracts used for review or commentary.)As a side note, I agree it looks more like a dentists drill or similar. Where did you find the image?
Reply:Can't be any kind of welding equipment I'm aware of.  Clear eyewear says it all"Any day above ground is a good day"http://www.farmersamm.com/
Reply:Thanks for the info.  The slide came from an old professor.  Apparently the principle recently got some kind of copyright infingement notice and is now making sure all materials used are not copyrighted.  It wont be a big deal to remove it but I'm kinda curious where it came from now.Last edited by uber_ninja; 04-13-2010 at 10:16 PM.
Reply:Note that U.S. copyright law of the last few decades says that EVERY original work is AUTOMATICALLY copyright protected unless the creator explicitly releases into the public domain, which hardly anyone bothers to do. Unless you can find something from the creator saying it is public domain, it is copyrighted.
Reply:Looks like Frankenstein to me.The Lord has declared, "This is my work and my glory--to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man"  Moses 1:39Link: My name is John, and I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.-- ColdCreekWorks.com --
Reply:Those aren't clear eye wear but rather the old style welders goggles, the pic is of a scientist type from around the 30's / 40's possibly early 50's given the style of art work shown.  I would say that it's more than likely an evil scientist working on a Robby the robot type as it looks like he is holding an electrode in his left hand producing a small spark as compared to a welders traditional bright as the sun spark.