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richlevy · 09-04-2009, 11:17 PM

After reading this, I edited and switched from linking to an image to just posting a link to an image in the WTF NSFW thread.

I'd like to see a legal opinion on the difference between.

Uploading a copyrighted image.
Embedding a link to a copyrighted image.
Posting a link to a copyrighted image.

I remember some legal fight over some site linking to images or content from another site within a frame without attribution or something.

Most of what gets posted to IOTD and the WTF NSFW threads is third party content. Unless fair use is explicitly established, I believe copyright is assumed. But I'm not a lawyer.

09-04-2009, 11:17 PM	#32
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	After reading this, I edited and switched from linking to an image to just posting a link to an image in the WTF NSFW thread. I'd like to see a legal opinion on the difference between. Uploading a copyrighted image. Embedding a link to a copyrighted image. Posting a link to a copyrighted image. I remember some legal fight over some site linking to images or content from another site within a frame without attribution or something. Most of what gets posted to IOTD and the WTF NSFW threads is third party content. Unless fair use is explicitly established, I believe copyright is assumed. But I'm not a lawyer. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama Last edited by richlevy; 09-04-2009 at 11:22 PM.