Dazed767 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 5447 posts, RR: 53 Reply 2, posted (8 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1203 times:
Technically they aren't stealing the photos, at least they kept the copyright bar
DB777 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 885 posts, RR: 49 Reply 3, posted (8 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1115 times:
Usage of an image without permission is stealing, technically, legally or however you want to look at it, even if the copyright bar is displayed. I'd be sending them an invoice for website usage. Why would organizations pay some of us for using our images on websites if it was legal to use them without permission?
Photographing aircraft since the Earth was flat and on Airliners.net since #338
DLKAPA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (8 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1110 times:
Guys guys guys whoa calm down
They are linking it in their forums, not posting it as theirs. More likely than not, they are linking it directly to the a.net image, so every time someone opens the page, it generates a hit on the picture! Besides, we post pictures in the Non-Av forum all the time, is that not the same thing?
Mia777 From United States of America, joined Sep 2002, 1165 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (8 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1014 times:
Just because you link the URL to the image's path on the A.net server, it does not mean you are accumulating hits. The reason (regardless of right or wrong) they saved the image to their own server is because it appears like you can't "hotlink" images from A.net (you need to run a certain script within a certain script, I don't know the details). This isn't "stealing" in the sense it is normally applied here, but they should have just provided a link.