> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Larry Colen > > A blogger learns the hard way: > http://www.roniloren.com/blog/2012/7/20/bloggers-beware-you-can-get- > sued-for-using-pics-on-your-blog.html >
inline linking is a legal way to show pictures from another person's site. Inline links do not violate copyright (in US law, and probably UK law) according to the wikipedia article about the subject: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking>. Some people don't like inline linking to their site, calling it 'bandwidth theft', and we've had examples on the PDML of people replacing the source image with something else when people have linked inline, but my own view is that this is one of the things that the web is for, so if you don't like it, don't put your pictures on the web. If someone links inline to one of your pictures and passes it off as their own work, that's a different matter, it's probably plagiarism rather than a copyright infringement, and has to be dealt with differently. Strangely enough, some people who complain about 'bandwidth theft' advise that instead of inline linking to a picture on the host, they should copy it to their own server and link to that. That would appear to be encouraging an actual breach of copyright, and evidence that the person giving the advice doesn't know their arse from their elbow (and probably also has difficulty distinguishing between shit and Shinola). In the case of the blogger mentioned above, although she doesn't go into details it sounds to me as though she's been intimidated into spending money either to get legal advice, or to settle with the copyright owner, or both, and has just caved in to a threat. My guess (what with me not being a lawyer an' all) is that unless the blogger has made money out of the copyright infringement, or has caused the copyright holder to lose money, reputation, whatever as a result, there probably wouldn't be any grounds for compensation - no damage done. There might be a risk of punitive damages, but probably not enough to be financially worthwhile for the copyright holder. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
