Etiquette and Legal Requirements for Setting up a Collection Website

If you plan to, or have setup a website which contains images taken from elsewhere on the Internet, and you do not have the copyright to the images, the following are some guidelines to make you life less stressful, and keep you out of any legal action, website removal, ISP access removal, public beatings etc.

All images on the Internet are copyrighted to their original producer, whether or not there is any text stating this either on the picture or on the original (or other collection) website where thay were obtained from.

If you know the source of the pictures, you should check with the owner what their policy is on other sites using the images: some sites will have a message on them, otherwise email the webmaster or contact address.

Most sites are happy for you to redisplay their images PROVIDED that you credit where the pictures have come from, and give a link to their website.

DO NOT underany circumstances directly link an image from the original website, this is called BANDWIDTH THEFT, and is regarded even more seriously than breaches of copyright. To use an image, you must have it loaded onto a website of your own.

If any images are uncredited, then place a general message CLEARLY on the website stating something like:

ALL the images on this website are copyrighted to their original producers.

On request from them, they will be removed, or a link and credit will be provided.

If anyone has anything to add to this (or any corrections), then please email me.

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