I found this photo when searching for something to post for our Copyright exercise this week. I wonder if the guitarist thought about the implied invitation she's sending out?
This was posted under a Creative Commons "Attribution" license. As I understand it, that means I have to say where it came from. Flickr's "Blog This" conveniently does that for me.
I'm confused about one thing, though. I found a photo I liked onFlickr, but the copyright said "All rights reserved". OK, so clearly I can't copy the photo and distribute it. But the "Blog This" button is still there in Flickr, which means the owner has made it public. And when you post a photo to your blog using "Blog This" you don't copy the photo - you just include a link to it in your blog.
So my question is this: How does linking to an image - and by that I mean displaying an image, but with the image source still on the original site - fit into all this? Is that OK, even under an "all rights reserved" license, because you are not copying it?
This was posted under a Creative Commons "Attribution" license. As I understand it, that means I have to say where it came from. Flickr's "Blog This" conveniently does that for me.
I'm confused about one thing, though. I found a photo I liked onFlickr, but the copyright said "All rights reserved". OK, so clearly I can't copy the photo and distribute it. But the "Blog This" button is still there in Flickr, which means the owner has made it public. And when you post a photo to your blog using "Blog This" you don't copy the photo - you just include a link to it in your blog.
So my question is this: How does linking to an image - and by that I mean displaying an image, but with the image source still on the original site - fit into all this? Is that OK, even under an "all rights reserved" license, because you are not copying it?
