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Originally Posted by MSD
If people are linking images from flickr without providing a link back to the flickr page, they're violating terms of service and you should report them.
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I know that, but you can't convince the entire internet, especially the 97.5% that don't have a clue about what fair copyright and creative commons licensing mean, let alone how to utilize it well enough that you don't violate the author's rights of management / entitlement to the works they've created.
Hell, I barely even knew half of the law myself until a year ago (still some parts I may skipped over). Alls I know, is now, I try to attribute, attribute and research some more to uncover anything leading to a name. I may not always be in the right by featuring it, not knowing if the creation was stolen or not, but at least with myself, I do all that I can to properly give the artist his due recognition. It is definitely easier now with the aid of the above, coupled with TinEye, but it does still take time and patience. I've even started asking permission from a few of contacts in other countries if they'd be at all averse to me featuring their work off-handedly here.
Most have little problem with it, but they are really shocked that I've even asked. Even when they do all they can to prevent random anonymous users from ripping their content, like preventing right-clickings on their webpage, or going all out into a flash interface, they can't sop it. Those who take, post it elsewhere with no citations at all as to a source, or worse, letting it be implied that they created the work themselves.