Suffice to say, you can get sued over this. I was wrong and it was a mistake to use the image, even though I thought I had permission. We had to take the image down but there were other complications I won't get into. Mojo received a letter saying that they owned the image, and that we weren't licensed to use it. One of the images I used for a blog post came back to haunt me. So, back to the story where I learned a lesson. Only licensed images, or images where you have express permission from the author, are safe to use on your blog. if you immediately take down a pic if someone sends you a DMCA notice (you do have to take it down, but it doesn't absolve you.).if the picture is embedded and not saved on your server.if you've added commentary in addition to having the pic in the post.if you didn't claim the photo was yours.if your site is non-commercial and you made no money from the use of the photo.if you link back to the source and list the photographer's name.Or so I thought.Ī quick note about image licensing and fair use. I really loved this tool, because it lets you search Flickr for photographs that are part of the Creative Commons, which means many of them are free to use. In the olden days (a year ago) I was using this app, CompFight, to pick images on Flickr that were marked Creative Commons license. ![]() Part of my job as Content Developer at Mojo is writing blogs and selecting images or creating graphics to go with those blog posts. If you're randomly selecting images from the internet and posting them on your blog, you may get to experience this unpleasant feeling. but you didn't know it was a bad choice until a year later? Have you ever made an innocent mistake, a bad choice.
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