Today it's hard to know what copyright infringement includes and what is actually legal. Sometimes there is no black or white answer, but instead a vast gray area. If I were find an image to use in a class webpage it would be wrong to find a random image from google images without citing the photographer. An alternative would be to instead use a free photo site such as stock.xchng at www.sxc.hu. These photos do not need any sort of citation, because the creators have agreed to let the public use the images. However, if I needed an image from a specific site I could always e-mail the creator and ask for permission to use the specific image. I would still need to cite the information about where I found it and who the creator is. If I still wasn't sure about having permission to use the file I would be better off finding another source.
Mary Camp
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Also, Creative Commons provides an alternative to traditional copyrights, with the “some rights reserved” copyright.
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