Well, the only things I’ve found so far are mentions of not stealing bandwidth for images – which I knew already but I’ll include a couple references below in case anyone isn’t familiar with the concept. Basically, stealing bandwidth is like borrowing someone’s cellphone and calling China for eight hours. Not nice.
From Wardomatic:
About jacking images from other sites for your own posts: this is a no-no. If you want to post an image from someone’s site to mention them (like we do consistantly on Drawn!), grab the image yourself and post it from your own image host. Do not use the image link from the original source’s host because you’re stealing their bandwidth!
And a couple other resources:
Knitblog
About.com
So… I think I may follow standard practice and use images (copied to my own server of course) to link to other sites. But I’ll try to drop the other site an email letting them know and saying that I’ll remove the image immediately if they don’t want to be featured. I don’t think anyone will mind since it will be promotion for them but that will make me feel better about using other peoples’ images, even for the best of reasons.
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