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A. Steve Easton is usually wrong.
B. Not this time. At least he's not COMPLETELY wrong this time.
The problem is in fact with the skim. The customer of the content isn't generally allowed to relicense use of the images to other webmasters. This could be covered in the license agreement. However, if Joe Webmaster submits a gallery to a TGP and provides a thumb to link the galleries, and then the TGP uses that thumb to advertise another website, that TGP is in fact using that content without a license. There has to be a good faith relationship between the content provider and the TGP, which does not generally exist. Furthermore, the TGP owner does not generally even have an idea where that content came from - so why are they allowed to use it as an ad for someone else's site?
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