UncleEbenezer wrote:An image search at google won't find any traces of the stuff posted in this thread at lemonfool. 'Cos none of them are here. All you'll find are links to URLs.
True, I was thinking of images uploaded to the forum database.
I'm an Admin on a phpBB forum and another forum and generally speaking we can't know whether an image breaches copyright or not. We just have to let it pass and delete it if someone complains. Then we find that the forum gets in the middle of an argument and we can't please both parties. It happened when one member complained that another member had copied his design.
On the phpbBB forum someone was copying auction details, all the text and all the photos, and had given the url to the auction webpage, to build up an archive for reference after the items had been taken down from the auction site, but in that case the text and photos were not owned by the auction company as they were submitted by the seller, so we thought that copyright must have been breached and we asked him to stop.
Even if the auction site owned the copyright it would have still breached the convention that extracts are acceptable provided that a source is given.