Link to an image?

[lar1]

So if I drag the "image" element onto one of my Weebly pages. Then I go to let's say to Google Images. Then I find an image I like and click on it and when I do that I get a dialog box that lets me choose "Copy this link" so I do that and then go back to my Weebly page and in the image element I can past that link address in.  Then after I Publish the page I will see that image on the page. That all said, here is actually my question:

As no actual image is downloaded to my weebly account or Weebly servers, the only thing that really happen is the image loads from the link, so is that still considered copywrite infrengment since the image?

[PaulMathews · Accepted solution]

@lar The image element is a container for an actual image. It does not serve solely as a link conduit to an external image source. If you simply intend to use the image element as a link conduit (by adding a link but not uploading an actual image) then you've reduced the image link to a simple link with a graphics placeholder (i.e., the rendered image will simply be whatever placeholder, if any, that a Weebly image element displays before an image is uploaded into it). It sounds like perhaps you're thinking that, if you add an original source image link in an image element, the source image itself will somehow be reflected in the image element. That won't happen. The link in an image element works exactly like a text link with a navigation-after-click to the target url. A source image link added to an image element will not somehow reflect that source image in the image element. You necessarily have to upload an image into the image element to have that image render on your page and, if you do that, you'll need to comply with the image license terms.