Linking to Photos on the Web

[kman]

Not sure if this is a silly question or not but I just became curious about this.

Now its quite obvious if a someone has a copyrighted picture up on the web and its taken by someone else (without permission) and used for some commercial purposes the original owner could take an issue/charge for usage etc as copyright has been breached.

Now say if someone on another website or forum displays the picture (either by saving and reuploading or linking directly to the url), not for any particular commercial purpose, would the same breach of copyright and right to charge apply? Would it make a difference if the photo was just linked too rather than saved and re-uploaded elsewhere?

What happens if you took a photo of a copyrighted photo would your copyright be ok?

Am i just having a blonde moment over this

 

[mah1880]

Massive can of worms. Without the specific permission of the image owner I would say no, both on the copyright and that the site owner might get rather upset if it suddenly leads to all their bandwidth being used up by 3rd party links.

 

[trapper501]

Massive can of worms. Without the specific permission of the image owner I would say no, both on the copyright and that the site owner might get rather upset if it suddenly leads to all their bandwidth being used up by 3rd party links.

I understood linking to the picture didn't breach copyright but was considered bad netiquette.

It is a really bad idea too as you cede control of the link over to the person publishing the picture on the net. This has led to some problems for politicians who have found the link they used redirected to a picture that causes them embarrassment.

Some people have systems in place to prevent such links from working.

The link should be to the site on which the picture is published and not to the picture itself. This gives proper accreditation to the copyright holder.