Legal Question

[ezdays]

Then I suggest that none of you post any images except those which you can prove belong to you specifically. That should solve everyone's problems and anxieties.

Just out of curiousity, however, why do you suppose that companies like Bing and Google post millions of images without restrictions to their use? Does anyone here really believe that all of those images were taken by employees on behalf of those companies?

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a definitive set of rules published somewhere on the Net so that everyone know what they can and cannot do with the content. I'm sure that proliferation of copyrighted material is ramped on the Internet, that doesn't make it right. But you are correct in pointing out that there are large corporations, like Google, that seem to make their own rules and no one challenges them. It would also be nice that a person could put together a site that the content cannot be copied and all browser could read but not download the information that people don't want copied. I can search for something like a particular gun and Google will come up with maybe fifty images of that gun and you have no idea where they came from. I've done searches for things like medicine or an ailment and found the identical information on maybe a dozen sites, word-for-word. Who originated it? Did that person lose his protection by not enforcing his rights, like they do for trademarks? It's a fine line, and we can only do what we believe is the right way. No one can fault us for that.