Image copyrights on web
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag?
which country? in the US, it probably is a violation, but there are all kinds of exceptions and rules. if you're really concerned, talk to a lawyer. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker
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It's also dangerous. I remember reading somewhere (quite possibly here on CP) wher a guy had an image on his site that was being linked to from other sites the way Rama mentioned. It was costing him so much banwidth that he replaced the image with an obscene one. All the sites that linked the image now had that obscene image displayed.
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It's also dangerous. I remember reading somewhere (quite possibly here on CP) wher a guy had an image on his site that was being linked to from other sites the way Rama mentioned. It was costing him so much banwidth that he replaced the image with an obscene one. All the sites that linked the image now had that obscene image displayed.
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I may be crazy
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PJ Arends wrote:
It was costing him so much banwidth that he replaced the image with an obscene one.
Hehe that reminds me of the defective laptop sold via ebay somebody was talking about here the other day ;-) ...
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Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as <img src="http://b/test.jpg" alt="Some really cool image on site b" /> Any ideas?
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as
Any ideas?Yes. It is a copyright infringement. But also the moral quandry of using up somebody else's bandwidth by displaying their site resources on your own site. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as
Any ideas?Yes. It is a copyright infringement. But also the moral quandry of using up somebody else's bandwidth by displaying their site resources on your own site. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote:
the moral quandry of using up somebody else's bandwidth
Thanks! I now remember the story which PJ mentions above. BTW: I was going to give full credits to the owner/site.
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Michael P Butler wrote:
the moral quandry of using up somebody else's bandwidth
Thanks! I now remember the story which PJ mentions above. BTW: I was going to give full credits to the owner/site.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
BTW: I was going to give full credits to the owner/site.
Unless you get permission, then full credits don't mean a darn thing. You can get away with a few quotes, but anything more takes you into the murky world of copyright. (And if it is an image - then trademark law and other legal stuff may come into play too) Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as
Any ideas?Yes. It is a copyright infringement. But also the moral quandry of using up somebody else's bandwidth by displaying their site resources on your own site. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Yeah, if I remember correctly, Google lost a case (or is still pending) on their image search and the use of even thumbnails. The company said that Google using even thumbnails of their work was causing a loss of revenue as they charged their clients for these, or something like this. Not sure if the case applies to this situation though. Rocky <>< Latest Post: Visual Studio 2005 Standard, whats missing? Blog: www.RockyMoore.com/TheCoder/[^]
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Yeah, if I remember correctly, Google lost a case (or is still pending) on their image search and the use of even thumbnails. The company said that Google using even thumbnails of their work was causing a loss of revenue as they charged their clients for these, or something like this. Not sure if the case applies to this situation though. Rocky <>< Latest Post: Visual Studio 2005 Standard, whats missing? Blog: www.RockyMoore.com/TheCoder/[^]
Rocky Moore wrote:
Yeah, if I remember correctly, Google lost a case (or is still pending) on their image search and the use of even thumbnails. The company said that Google using even thumbnails of their work was causing a loss of revenue as they charged their clients for these, or something like this. Not sure if the case applies to this situation though.
In that case the key issue was that the company sold cellphone screen sized versions fo the images that were able the same size as a google thumbnail.
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It's also dangerous. I remember reading somewhere (quite possibly here on CP) wher a guy had an image on his site that was being linked to from other sites the way Rama mentioned. It was costing him so much banwidth that he replaced the image with an obscene one. All the sites that linked the image now had that obscene image displayed.
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
Heh this actually happens a lot, usually with hilarious results. Don't ever hotlink without permission. Legality aside, some people find the act to be very rude so they'll do whatever to "punish" you. Of course, large companies would not do this, they'd just sue you :rolleyes:
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Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as <img src="http://b/test.jpg" alt="Some really cool image on site b" /> Any ideas?
It's only copyright if you misrepresent ownership of the image. It is also called leeching and it's very, VERY bad etiquette. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It's only copyright if you misrepresent ownership of the image. It is also called leeching and it's very, VERY bad etiquette. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
So the utility presented in this article may violate copyrights: http://www.codeproject.com/Ajax/FlickrSpell.asp[^] Please Advise! Looking at the flickr website I thought it will be ok.
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Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as <img src="http://b/test.jpg" alt="Some really cool image on site b" /> Any ideas?
On the other side of the fence from the replies you've had, just try to be the little guy (ok, girl) who's had photo's stolen from the web. In my case they were actually being used on printed brochures, but as I was in the UK, the images were hosted in the US and the offending firm was in South Africa (and the project my photo's were being used to advertise fell through) it was impossible to actually get any compensation. I suppose if I'd been rich enough to want to do it for a moral victory something could have been done, but employing lawyers for a case which will most likely go nowhere seems an even worse investment strategy than gambling.
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Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as <img src="http://b/test.jpg" alt="Some really cool image on site b" /> Any ideas?
A few years ago, I managed an e-commerce site that sold movie posters. A site that was "offering" bootleg movies for download had linked to images of 3 of our posters as part of their download pages...in one day, our site took a 3GB hit in bandwidth (each image was about 20K - so you can imagine how many hits his site was getting!). I contacted the sites webmaster asking him to remove links because it was blowing our monthly bandwidth out of the water. After 3 days of no responses, I filed a complaint with their hosting company because the website was violating the ISP terms of service (using resources of other sites is against the TOS). The account was terminated. A few days later the site was back up on another ISP and I sent a complaint with that ISP...after the 3rd one, I think the JERK finally got the message...but not before I was saddled with a way-over-the-limit bandwidth charge of a few hundred $$$ :mad: Steve
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Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as <img src="http://b/test.jpg" alt="Some really cool image on site b" /> Any ideas?
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It's only copyright if you misrepresent ownership of the image. It is also called leeching and it's very, VERY bad etiquette. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I don't think that is right. If someone used one of my photographs that they found from any source without my permission*, even with a credit line, they would be in violation. * I am a bad example actually as I have tagged all my photos as being Copyleft (with CreativeCommons) and I explicitly allow use of my photos without having to obtain permission first.) But by default copyright is applied to all images and permission is required. regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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> That should cost him a few hundred dollars an hour. You're right. Copyright lawsuits are cheaper.
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Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as <img src="http://b/test.jpg" alt="Some really cool image on site b" /> Any ideas?
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as
Oh for the love of whatever it is you worship!! How hard is it to right-click the image you want to steal, and save it, then load it into your site with your own tag?? It's bad enough you're stealing someone's intellectual property, in the form of the image, do you have to steal thier tag, and clever file system structure as well? jim.visible = false;
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as
Any ideas?Yes. It is a copyright infringement. But also the moral quandry of using up somebody else's bandwidth by displaying their site resources on your own site. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
What about if you are using the image as a link to the other site? Do you have to get permission first? Is copying the image and using from your site for the link image better? Cheers Dougal Please be nice this is my first post :)
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It's also dangerous. I remember reading somewhere (quite possibly here on CP) wher a guy had an image on his site that was being linked to from other sites the way Rama mentioned. It was costing him so much banwidth that he replaced the image with an obscene one. All the sites that linked the image now had that obscene image displayed.
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!