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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4194931" data-attributes="member: 41321">The most legal way to do it would be, as kolvar said, to ask permission before grabbing the image unless it's obviously released under some sort of open license (as most of the images on Wikipedia should be).You should never do option 1.&nbsp; The originating site is paying for bandwith that your viewers are using.&nbsp; Not cool.&nbsp; Some sites jump through hoops to specifically disallow external image views like this because it costs them money.What you might want to do is grab the image for yourself, host it on your own servers, then provide a link back to the original site.&nbsp; Most people are okay with this, but some are not.&nbsp; For example, if you were to pull down an image of a comic from <a href="http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html" target="_blank">OOTS</a> and put it up on your blog then I know Rich Burlew won't like it.&nbsp; Use your best judgment when doing this, and when in doubt ask for permission first.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 4194931, member: 41321"] The most legal way to do it would be, as kolvar said, to ask permission before grabbing the image unless it's obviously released under some sort of open license (as most of the images on Wikipedia should be). You should never do option 1. The originating site is paying for bandwith that your viewers are using. Not cool. Some sites jump through hoops to specifically disallow external image views like this because it costs them money. What you might want to do is grab the image for yourself, host it on your own servers, then provide a link back to the original site. Most people are okay with this, but some are not. For example, if you were to pull down an image of a comic from [url=http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html]OOTS[/url] and put it up on your blog then I know Rich Burlew won't like it. Use your best judgment when doing this, and when in doubt ask for permission first. [/QUOTE]

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