A friend of mine started up his own website recently and uses panorama's as part of the logo. He was told by someone that all photos posted here were public domain hence not having to ask permission to use people's pictures as logos for different pages. But at the bottom of SP it says "All Rights Reserved". So are these rights reserved for the owners of the site? Or owners of people's content? Obviously the courteous thing to do is to ask people for permission which I usually do when hosting pictures outside of SummitPost on my SP pages.
I am guilty of doing it with non-logo's as seen here. I do however link directly to the page which still gives the author credit. Plus the page has no direct "author" (or at least it will coming up considering that it's a wiki). But perhaps I'm doing poor form as well?
I would like to get to the bottom of this issue. Opinions and advice would go appreciated.
P.S. I do not upload pictures that are not mine without permission for the author(s).