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Originally Posted by BrendanB
It is not the responsibility of the people "providing" (its not really providing at the moment because they were never asked) the content to talk about this on their own. This is the responsibility of whomever is running the website. How about I grab pictures of you off of Facebook (or other media site) and use them on a website for promotional work. I'm not going to ask you can just tell everyone that its you. This is not how the real world works.
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Legally, this
is the way the world works in the case of fair use, which is why determining if it falls under that category is so pivotal in this discussion. I
can take a photo off the internet and show it to a classroom for educational purposes- a case that definitely falls within the area of fair use.
Yes, credit should be given where credit is due, as I mention in my above post, but modifying their behavior is not something entirely within your control, while adapting to it certainly is.
(You also won't find me on Facebook- I have a thing against them

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