> Is it really reasonable to expect everybody to go on an archaelogical dig to track down stock photos through hundreds of copies to trace the original from som

> Is it really reasonable to expect everybody to go on an archaelogical dig to track down stock photos through hundreds of copies to trace the original from some Australian blog? Google Image Search is not a stock photo library. There are plenty of stock images of VHS tapes available for licensing; just google "VHS stock photo." Whoever made those images probably worked for a design company with standing accounts; they were just too lazy to use them. > If I use a snippet of "open source" code, am I morally/legally obligated to also scour the internet, trace its geneology through hundreds of Stack Overflow answers/random Github repos that it's already in, just to make sure the person licensing it as open source didn't, himself, steal it from somewhere else? Irrelevant, because the designer didn't have a good-faith belief that they were licensing the image correctly. They just pulled it off a GIS and didn't bother. But since you bring up open source, do you think you're morally/legally obligated to abide by the terms of the relevant open source license when you use open source code? Or do you think you can just do whatever you want with it, because obeying the law is hard?