http://permissionsplease.today.com/2009/02/11/cartoons-copyright/ Copyrights & Permissions Unraveled Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:17:18 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 http://permissionsplease.today.com/2009/02/11/cartoons-copyright/#comment-37 rarden Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:54:55 +0000 http://permissionsplease.today.com/2009/02/11/cartoons-copyright/#comment-37 Speaking of seeing cartoons, etc., that people use in their posts and other sites, there's an even more serious problem. That's finding such a thing online and "hot linking" to it to display on your site. It's worse than just scanning or copying it and using it, it's also a theft of services. So this is a double theft. It's illegal use of copyrighted material, as you point out, but when a person hot links, they use the URL of the picture where it's originally displayed to display the picture on their own site. That uses the original URL's resources for holding and displaying the stolen picture. Speaking of seeing cartoons, etc., that people use in their posts and other sites, there’s an even more serious problem. That’s finding such a thing online and “hot linking” to it to display on your site. It’s worse than just scanning or copying it and using it, it’s also a theft of services. So this is a double theft. It’s illegal use of copyrighted material, as you point out, but when a person hot links, they use the URL of the picture where it’s originally displayed to display the picture on their own site. That uses the original URL’s resources for holding and displaying the stolen picture.

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