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Any image where it is impossible to find the originating source, already used thousands of times on tumbler, blogs, and websites, and is under a certain resolut
by zappo2938 10y ago
Any image where it is impossible to find the originating source, already used thousands of times on tumbler, blogs, and websites, and is under a certain resolution and size (thumbnail for example) falls into the category of fair use.
- teddyh 10y agoNope. Everything is copyrighted by default, and if you don’t have permission (“license”) to copy it, it’s illegal for you to copy it. There are the “fair use” exceptions, but those have nothing to do with what you wrote.
- zappo2938 10y agoI clearly misunderstood what is meant by "Would it be considered impossible to obtain permission from the original source?" as criteria for fair use.[0] I've seen numerous images on Wikipedia that use this as reason for fair use. Someone uploads an image to 4chan as anonymous, for example, without a path to ask permission it might be fair use to use that image.This is different from someone posting an image to facebook where there is a way to ask the author for permission. Please, explain my misunderstanding here. [0]: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/qxptplnxqtrhme965gal.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/qxptplnxqt...
- teddyh 10y ago> Would it be considered impossible to obtain permission from the original source? That question assumes that you know who the original source is. If you don’t know that, you can’t consider it impossible.