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Originally Posted by Tempest
"Technically", once you crop/resize etc the images you are protected under fair use provisions as has been upheld in a US court of law. If that wasn't the case, none of us could have been doing what we do in this biz for all these years, nor could google have their image search etc. That means you can use the pics however you want really and tell them to fuck off while you redirect the traffic elsewhere.
Yep, I'm in a pissy mood tonight
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This absolutely is NOT the case. NOT "technically", and NOT in any court of law. You can't trim a pixel off the height and width and call it your own, you fucking tool.
You aren't legally allowed to use anything you didn't produce yourself without the permission of the person who created it. That is the letter of the law.
The color of the law is that your business can't profit off the sweat of another business. That's the basis behind all IP laws including trademark, patent law, and laws governing domain misspellings, etc.
I'd love to see you trim a millisecond off a pop music track and go against the RIAA in court with that defense. They'd rake you over the coals.
