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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
Why should google be able to copy images from other websites and host them and do what they do with google images?
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"Should"... well who knows... There are justifictions for fair use but it's been taken outside the original intent as far as I'm concerned.
How they can do it is simple. Fair use... the courts have said that making thumbs of images is fair use.
Funny thing here is that we ALL take advantage of the exact same fair use with all the thumbs etc. we make for our sites. I don't remember seeing anything in any programs TOS etc. that says we can use their images/videos on our sites. And yet we do it all the time... And in fact most content producers specify that only a certain amount of the content can be used for promotional purposes by the company that bought it. That doesn't extend to affiliates... So without fair use, we'd all have only text based sites with links to the programs FHGs, hotlinked images etc.