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I think he does, which is why for non-commercial infringement (example 2) he asks that the image simply be credited and linked to his site.


In particular, he explains why he requires the attribution and link to originals. To prevent downstream infringement.

It should be obvious from these letters that drive-by "lift it from the web, slap on own product" infringement is unpleasantly common. A person I knew in university has had book reviews lifted word-for-word from her site and used elsewhere for endorsement/advertising purposes. At least with text it's relatively easy to find identical snippets.

Without any attribution, I can only imagine how difficult it would be to track down an original photo once it has passed through a dozen different image sites.




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