Not sure how legitimate this is, but it's something I often do. I usually just take a screenshot instead of download the pic I intend to use, and crop it a little, change the size, rename it...perhaps use a different extension. Not the best method, but it's better than just outright copying something. Google has actualy been using other people's images and linking back to Google with them, which is a little questionable.
That is illegal theft, plain and simple. You should be in jail. Not according to the courts ruling, its not.
What court ruling are you referreing to? I never saw a ruling stating that Google can show you an image (not owned by Google) of the Empire State Building when you search for New York, and then when you click on the image, Google links to Google, not to the site of the owner of the photo. That is using another person's image w/o their permission and linking to yourself and not to them.
The court ruling that Google won when sued for copyright. The court ruled that google were not hosting the images, but just thumbnails. Totally different to you illegally stealing images from other sites to use on your site- do that to any of my images and you will be facing legal action and your host will have 24hrs to take the site down or they will be part of the action.
I am not talking about searching google images. I think you are misunderstanding my post. https://www.google.com/#q=new+york+sightseeing You see that big bar of pics at the top? They are not owned by G, and regardless of where they are hosted, G is using them to link back to G and not to the owner of the pic. Following that idea, why could the OP of this thread embed images hosted on other people's servers? The OP wouldn't be hosting them either. Anyway, moving on, usuing other folks pics is playing with fire, especially with adsense.
You need to go and read what the court actually said when Google won the case. You also need to get your facts right. Go and talk to a copyright lawyer and they will tell you. Bullshit! Google will not accept a site into adsense if they have illegally copied images on them. Just go over to Google adsense help forums; every day there are sites complaining about not getting accepted and that is the reason.
Um, I am sensing some reading comprehension issues. For the OP....use the WP plugin "photodropper" if you must use people's pics. I got approved for Adsense on a blog using CC pics found and inserted easily into the post through that plugin.
If you are so confident that you are right; tell us your site and I will see how long it takes for Google to ban you from adsense and for your host to take you down. If you think you are right then you got nothing to loose.
Who's trolling? You the one that is failing to back up what they are saying when challenged. From that one can only assume that you are lieing. I ask you again: put up what I ask? What are you so afraid of? Are you afraid that you are wrong and I will prove I m right by getting you banned from Adsense for stealing content? Thieves should be treated with competent.
Assume what you want. You know the saying about that word, don't you? It only applies to the first 4 letters this time.
I not assuming anything. You are the one that admitted you were a theif! Don't you remember saying this: You should be in jail. Criminals get treated with contempt around here.
I also said it's not a great idea and something like photodropper is much better as it's CC...you really do have a reading comprehension issue...done with you now
You are the one with the issue If you had read the full thread, you would have seen my post, which states that the practise you are using is against copyright law Source: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/students/using_information.html Even if you make a screenshot, resize it and use a different file extension, you simply don't have permission to do so, therefore you are breaking copyright law and can be persecuted.
Firstly, it's prosecuted, not persecuted, and second, I said it wasn't a good idea and using a WP plugin like photodropper that uses CC pics is a much better and safer route, thus, you also have some reading comprehension problems.
Not every image under the creative commons license are allowed to be used that way. Luckily, there is a handy chart. Tested the photodropper app a bit. Seems that it really finds images which you can use commercially, but if you want to make a derivative, you still need to check the license.
yeah, it still takes a little effort, but not much, and as I said before, it's safer than just ganking pics if you take a few minutes to check the license