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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 4194297" data-attributes="member: 31216">Say you have a blog. You want to post an image (for discussion or example or anything) on your blog that you found at another site. What is the proper, polite, legal way to post that image?1. Do you [ img ] link to it? This keeps the image at the other site, but it uses their bandwidth.2. Do you copy and save the image to your server and use it? This essentially takes the image, but you don't ride their bandwidth.3. Do you just give a text link to the image so your readers have to go to the other site to see it? This leaves the image with the other site, but again, it uses their bandwidth. (Plus it basically sends people away from your site.)4. Should you just leave the image alone?I've done all of these at one time or another, but I'm uncomfortable not knowing the "right" way to handle it. I don't want to steal someone else's image for my own use, but what to do?For instance (using a pic relavant to this board), I used someone else's Gary Gygax picture for my March 5 blog post <a href="http://www.totalbullgrit.com/2008/03/05/the-dungeon-master/" target="_blank">http://www.totalbullgrit.com/2008/03/05/the-dungeon-master/</a> -- I copied it and saved it to my server. I don't have an image of EGG, and I don't know how to get one. Is doing this wrong? (I don't even remember where I got the picture.)What if my site was a money-making deal (it's not)? Would that make a difference in how I take/use images on it?How about taking images from places like IMDB or Wikipedia? Are those sources "open" for anyone to use?Bullgrit<a href="http://www.totalbullgrit" target="_blank">Total Bullgrit</a></blockquote>

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