Am I right or wrong?

I have a good understanding of copyright law from working in the print trade for as long as I did and working with agencies etc. It would seem that on the internet most site owners think their case is different. For example, some sites think it is okay to breach copyright with some images yet protect others thus creating a double standard. Today there are global copyright laws that are binding to those countries which signed the agreements. As for my own personal point of view it is as follows. If you use a piece of work which is not yours to create an image that you post, and if the image you used has copyright protection then permission from the originating artist should be included with the submission. If it is not then it is a copyright breach and has no business legally being posted. And that includes fan art, sports, girly pictures....the entire gambit.I cannot expect my own work to be respected and protected unless I afford other artists the same as I would want for myself. And as a final comment, I do not believe anyone can call themselves an artist if all they are doing is copy and pasting someone elses work.

It is certainly not the publicity shot of Liz Taylor. She is reclining in a completely different position and dressed nothing like the girl who is identical to the one from the website. The entire work in my mind is a compilation.

It also has me edited. The edited version was used, near as I can figure. I bet it was a b/w photo with color added (esp the rose).

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