On Posting Pictures - Hotlinking with IMG Tags, Copyright Issues, and Street Shots

**Arctic** · November 8th, 2009, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by melikai

What if we take an image that is not ours, and edit it, and then use that?

This can easily get very complicated....

From what I understand it's against copyright law to use image like that. It violated the person who took/draw/whatever that picture. Different thing is if the image is not copyrighted, there are many people out there who give their photos for others to use, but even then the image might have partial copyright, preventing it's usage for comercial use.

**Arctic** · November 8th, 2009, 06:49 AM

Originally Posted by WritingPrincess

I think I understand. Just one quick question. If I get my dad to take a picture of my hair, does that need a "posted with permission"?
Thanks for the clarification, Flaxen.

I'm not Flaxen or LHC staff, but rest assured you can post picture of your hair your dad took without adding any text. Ofcourse it's always polite to give credit to the photographer even in such case.

**LeaM07** · November 8th, 2009, 08:47 AM

Just to add to the confusion, taking a picture yourself doesn't necessarily guarantee that you're not violating a copyright. It depends on what you're taking a picture of. Certain works of art or literature, for example, might require permission before you could be free and clear to post pics of them on the Internet.

(It's probably a good rule of thumb for our purposes, though.

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**Calista** · November 10th, 2009, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by Calista

Is it permitted to use the LHC smilies on TBB? Like, copy the URL of the smilie and paste it into the TBB post using the IMG-tags.

Bumping this in case one of the mods would like to chime in.

**physicschick** · November 10th, 2009, 12:32 PM

Calista, I think they all live on the same server here, so I don't see why that would be a problem.

**Calista** · November 10th, 2009, 12:54 PM

Yeah, that´s what I thought - I just wanted to make sure. Thanks!

**WritingPrincess** · November 11th, 2009, 09:59 AM

Okay, thanks, Arctic. I thought so, just wanted to make sure.

**enfys** · December 18th, 2009, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by LeaM07

Just to add to the confusion, taking a picture yourself doesn't necessarily guarantee that you're not violating a copyright. It depends on what you're taking a picture of. Certain works of art or literature, for example, might require permission before you could be free and clear to post pics of them on the Internet.

(It's probably a good rule of thumb for our purposes, though.

)

Darn it, you got there before me! Yes, I have also heard about copyright violations caused by taking photos with buildings in the background, or photos of the building, that needed permission to be used. Maybe that's just commercial, newspaper uses or whatever.

This is a very difficult situation but it seems overall that if we post links (remembering to mention if something may be NSFW) then we take the problem away for LHC of copyright violation. If that site is using a copyrighted image illegally it's their problem.

Am I right?

**physicschick** · December 18th, 2009, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by enfys

This is a very difficult situation but it seems overall that if we post links (remembering to mention if something may be NSFW) then we take the problem away for LHC of copyright violation. If that site is using a copyrighted image illegally it's their problem.

Am I right?

I think you are right, and I like the way you put it!

(Although really NSFW stuff probably shouldn't even be linked to. You can give people search terms for a search engine if it's important that they be able to find something.)

**enfys** · December 18th, 2009, 02:51 PM

I'm very wary of NSFW; if something links to a bikini photo I'd give a warning just incase you have a very strict boss or don't want rumours starting or something. Anything very very much unsuitable you're quite right, I'd just say what helpful words I'd typed into Google.