: How does delicious.com avoid being sued for copyright infringement? With the recent redesign of delicious.com, they've added a much more graphical home page. The site continues to be a service

@Cody1181609

Yes, it basically falls under Fair Use*.
What they're showing is just an excerpt in one form or another, and there's absolutely no claim that they own the content or represent the companies whose trademarks etc. are being displayed, nor would any reasonable person be confused as to that fact. A lot of copyright "infringement" can be attributed to people simply not knowing they shouldn't be using something; tell them to take it down and if they do it's done with. Proving infringement for purposes of something like a lawsuit is going to require something closer to showing actual intent to infringe or mislead.

*Though note that Fair Use is a specifically US concept that may have different names/interpretations in other parts of the world, if it even exists there. It's conceivable though pretty unlikely that a copyright/trademark holder in one of those other places might decide to go after them and maybe have a valid case.

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@Lee4591628

Good question.

However, have you ever thought how many Coke or Nike logos are being used around the world without their consentiment? Actually, only if it is Pepsico or another giant they would mind. Otherwise, it is just publicity. Free publicity.

Another interestig point is... most licenses in the internet material nowadays are free for non-commercial use, which means websites as delicious and most blogs can use them without worry, as well as they aren't actually selling anything directly or using those images for promoting a product.

That's all the point.

For last, I did open the delicious first page, and got to search all legal information for all photos. There is no single photo with highly restrictive copyright license. All of them, without exception are completely free or free for non-commercial use. May be just a coincidence, or maybe delicious fellas did antecipate this point and made up a license crawler to find out which images they can use from each page.

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