On 20/05/14 00:37, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
Linking to an image on my site makes it look like the image is a part of
your site. If I own the copyright on that image, that is a violation of
the copyright.
That appears to be still a subject of debate. My view: If I haven't
copied it, how can I be violating copyright? I would still consider it
an unethical thing to do, perhaps, but not a copyright violation. But IANAL.
Even if I don't own the copyright, you are using
bandwidth I paid for for your site, which is also theft.
I'm not using your bandwidth. My viewer is. And it's an image you put
there to be downloaded. Still, I agree it's unethical.
Of course, you can use tricks with referrer headers - or even more
complicated methods with timeouts from the request of the your
containing page, or whatever - to try and avoid it.
Richard