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Getty Images Letter Forum / A purely hypothetical question
« on: August 18, 2011, 12:39:49 PM »
Again to much time on my hands, I should be registering my works so I can make some fast cash!! just kidding...
So I have a site and saw this really cool image of the Nebraska skyline, I truly love this image but am to cheap to purchase it, so instead I just link directly to the image from the photographers blog, cause the one he has there doesn't have the ugly watermark... So now the image "appears" on my site, but is not on my servers, I'm guessing I could still be on the hook??
I think i saw a similair thread somewhere, where someone had an ad banner being dynamically served to his site and the banner had a portion of one of getty's images on it..They didn't seem to care that the actual file was hosted elsewhere, and proceeded to go after him anyway..
You'd think if picscout was scanning the server for images in question, it would not "see" this image as it's only a link, and doesn't it have to read the code...last i knew bots/crawlers didn't have eyes in which to actually view an image online..
okay back to your regular scheduled programming unless you feel the need to discuss this which would be nice
So I have a site and saw this really cool image of the Nebraska skyline, I truly love this image but am to cheap to purchase it, so instead I just link directly to the image from the photographers blog, cause the one he has there doesn't have the ugly watermark... So now the image "appears" on my site, but is not on my servers, I'm guessing I could still be on the hook??
I think i saw a similair thread somewhere, where someone had an ad banner being dynamically served to his site and the banner had a portion of one of getty's images on it..They didn't seem to care that the actual file was hosted elsewhere, and proceeded to go after him anyway..
You'd think if picscout was scanning the server for images in question, it would not "see" this image as it's only a link, and doesn't it have to read the code...last i knew bots/crawlers didn't have eyes in which to actually view an image online..
okay back to your regular scheduled programming unless you feel the need to discuss this which would be nice