Though Angelus is surely accurate in his appraisal of JS/WB's habits re: copyright enforcement in this matter, that's not quite the same thing as our self-owned exclusion within rule #1. Besides: anecdotal knowledge that a copyright holder doesn't routinely enforce it's copyrights in certain matters is
not the same thing as the images being either copyrighted by the poster
or actually in the public domain.
As such, I removed one image from Angelus' post, which he's more than welcome to repost once 24hrs have elapsed from his previous post. Part of expecting users to abide by the Owner's rules involves mods enforcing those rules as fairly and consistently as possible... thus, this post was edited.
As the rules outline, up to five
internal links are OK within a post: thus, users can link to pix in their own galleries, or the UG/MG, etc... this is a compromise the Owner is OK with. As many folks have pointed out in other threads, when a user links to an image hosted on an outside server, it doesn't actually reduce the site's potential liability for copyright infringement at all, so as ever: we ask that folks simply abide by the rules (and exercise some personal common sense) when posting so we can all keep doing so for years to come.
Thanks!
