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Posted by me under the comments on the Xbit IDF story (just so's you know):
"What we did is published a news-story based on a report from a Chinese web-site. We cannot check whether all pictures on the Internet belong to Hexus whenever we publish a story with pictures.
Once asked, we removed the pics and credited a web-site called Hexus in the story. In contrast, a site called Hexus still publishes a slander on X-bit labs. "
Actually, it's not a slander; you took copyrighted material and posted it without crediting the source. And it's YOUR site; it's YOUR responsibility to check the provenance of the images you use. And how would it have been better if you'd been ripping off your images from a Chinese website? Were you just going to hope they didn't speak English or something? May I suggest that a better course of action would be to use images that either:
1. You got yourself.
2. Were supplied by the manufacturer or their represenative
3. Were supplied by a 3rd party who took those images themselves and EXPLICITLY gave you permission to use them?
That way you could avoid (utterly accurate) objections to your unauthorised use of other people's work. It's not rocket science.
Nick
4. Oh, and by the way, if the item on Hexus WERE defamatory (which it isn't), it would be libel, not slander. Don't throw around technical legal terms unless you have a clue what they mean.
Nick
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. You seem to know what you're talking about in this legal minefield.
