Foxtrotlima Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Apologies for butting in on this thread, but if I remember correctly, if you state your source site for the image and credit the photographer where possible (perhaps underneath the image), this keeps it all within the bounds of legality. There again, I could be wrong, but I don't think I am too far off the mark. If anyone is finding Imageshack slow, Photobucket is a pretty OK alternative. If images are resized to 640x480 it is pretty quick to upload. / butting out finished. Quick edit:- I am guilty of not crediting sources, but am definitely going to make sure I can where possible from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Git Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Apologies for butting in on this thread, but if I remember correctly, if you state your source site for the image and credit the photographer where possible (perhaps underneath the image), this keeps it all within the bounds of legality. There again, I could be wrong, but I don't think I am too far off the mark. Sorry, but I think you are wrong. Anyway, this thread isn't really to do with other people's photography, it's to do with directly linking to images on their site and so using their bandwidth, which they pay for, without actually driving any traffic to their site that they might benefit from I've had people hotlink directly to my images before. In one case I didn't mind, in other instances I've either renamed the image to something other name or substituted the image for something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrotlima Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 My apologies TOG, I obviously had misunderstood. I appreciate the whole leeching bandwidth thing, but my reply was more to Chinahand's post about copyright. (Would have helped if I had quoted the bit I was replying to, duh!). Thank you for putting me straight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Git Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Ah, I misunderstood as well I know some countries have a "fair usage" idea with regards to copyright where, you can include some work as part of a critique, but I don't think you can generally "pinch" someone's work to put on another website as long as you state who and where you pinched it from. I'm a bit pushed for time at the moment but pages like http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/#87 http://www.photosecrets.com/tips.copyright.html give some idea of copyright of photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrotlima Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Cheers for those links TOG. I was pretty sure about CC, but didn't want to get out of my depth on that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Git Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Some photographers are up in arms about the USA wanting to change the world rules on photo copyright -- http://copyrightaction.com/forum/orphan-wo...troduced-in-usa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Presumably sites like amazon or BBC or wiki would be ok to use their pics since they have so many clicks a few from here wouldn't make a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 Look, this isn't a hard and fast rule. It's a request for people to be courteous about their use of other people's bandwidth, no matter where it is hosted. If people don't want to do this, then fine. I'm just trying to highlight why it's a bit unfair to those people who may not have given it much thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
integer Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Whats bandwidth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbms Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I think what ans is trying to say is if you wish to show an image from another site then so long as the owner doesnt object to you copying the image and putting it on another location i.e. imageshack etc to save his bandwidth then please do so as once he goes over his allowed bandwidth he has to pay per mb and that could be costly on a popular thread. If they object to relocating the image then tough they have to put up with the increased bandwidth. Please correct me if I am wrong ans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theodolite Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Presumably sites like amazon or BBC or wiki would be ok to use their pics since they have so many clicks a few from here wouldn't make a difference. It works both ways!! Wasn't there a case on this forum where someone accused the BBC of knicking his avatar photo? He even wrote a stiff email to them although the BBC denied any wrongdoing, although the photos were identical. It turned out that the BBC were elsewhere showing an even larger photo that contained the disputed photo and it was clear that the forum chap had lifted the BBC photo for an avatar off the BBC in the first place!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 You mean this one? http://www.manxforums.com/forums/index.php...mp;hl=copyright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theodolite Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 So for example, if you use this image as an avatar, which was obviously 'taken' from the BBC as they also use this image too on webpages such as : St Valentines Day - Gloucestershire and Stoke and Staffordshire ecards would that be ok? providing you didn't hotlink to it. Or is this going off topic a little? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 When posting images up on the forum, can people refrain from just hotlinking to wherever they found them. You're using someone elses bandwidth up without their permission. It might not seem like a massive deal. but a 100k image hotlinked from another address in a topic with just 100 thread views is 10mb of data off someone elses quota. Not to mention the fact that the host could change the image to goat porn at any moment if they find out their bandwidth is being drained. Members can of course use the ManxForum upload facility but the best thing to do is to use one of the many free image hosting services such as ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or any of the others. My own personal preference is ImageShack, which also has a nice Firefox addon that gives you the option to right click on an image in your browser and have it uploaded to your ImageShack account automatically. It's not a direct criticism of anyone and I'm certainly not asking anyone to go back and change any posts, I just think it would be good if people could bear this in mind when they're posting up images in future. Just noticed that there is more than one person currently hotlinking images in the numbers game thread. Please re-read this people and take heed of ans' suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTaxPayer Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Sorry for noobishness, but have I hotlinked here with this picture? Only I've never used this way before.... feel free to remove it if so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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