Ok to use pics from other websites?

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  nickfreiling · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 1:59 am

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  Is it ok to use pictures from other websites on my blog? I am not making any money off of this blog, though I am getting a few hundred views per day.

  If not, let me know what I have to fix to remain legal/in accordance with WordPress rules. I just have 4 or 5 pictures that guest writers have put up with their articles that were not from Wikimedia Commons or otherwise free-to-copy sources.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 2:04 am

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  You and your authors can only use images that you yourself created, or that you have permission from the copyright holders to use, or that are in the public domain. That’s what the ToS states. http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

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  timethief · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 2:07 am

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  Oops! I forgot to say or that you purchased from the copyright holder or their agents.

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  nickfreiling · Member · Jan 10, 2012 at 2:18 am

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  Thanks a lot! I’ll be replacing the pics in the next few minutes.