Here is a post by Kos that I TOTALLY agree with and we all need to be better at this. His site is especially vulnerable because it is so big and it is watched by so many.

Copyright
by kos
Thu Jan 18, 2007 at 12:07:17 PM PST

Looks like I'm in a meta mood today. But I've had to ban a bunch of people recently for copyright infringement, and that brings me zero joy (unlike zapping assholes, trolls, and wingers).

Look people -- I'm taking copyright violations seriously. We have the benefit of being in a medium where we can easily direct people to source material via hyperlink.

snip...

Update: No one is perfect. In the Nightline profile of me, the show's producers took a photo of me they dug up in Google images and displayed it in the segment. Too bad for them, the image was copyrighted, owned by the photographer. He was able to squeeze ABC for a royalty payment.

That's to say, accidents happen. And the line between "fair use" and "infringement" are sometimes not crystal clear. I'm willing to allow some gray area, and even fight for genuine fair use. But wholesale reproductions will never meet the Fair Use guidelines.

Read the rest here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/1/18/144416/479

Also... could we get the comments area here to be a lighter gray and make it so the "blockquotes" show in the current shade of gray? This would help with copyright and block quoting as stated above.