Is inlining someone else s image on you homepage an infringement?
The general consensus in the copyright community at this time is that it is. There is a more detailed discussion of inlining below in the section on Retrieving and Using Works from the Interenet. 6. A professor wants to post copyrighted materials, such as slides for an art history course, on the world wide web, with access restricted (by confidential password) solely to those students taking the class. Would such an arrangement constitute a copyright violation or is it a fair use of the materials on a limited basis for educational purposes? If your faculty member s desires fit within the framework of an electronic reserve, it should be a fair use. But, reserves shouldn t be all the materials available for the course, so that might be a limitation. It also shouldn t be available indefinitely, another limitation. If you want to create a permanent electronic archive of all the course materials (all the slides for the course), I would recommend that you seek permission from the slide copyr
