Well, I have unintentionally upset someone mightilly when I just posted a link along the lines of ‘____ was talking about ____ in their blog last week”  They let me know in no uncertain terms (comments where all could see) that I should have given a full quote not just mentioned that they said something. And hurt as my feelings may have been, they were right. So now I put full quotes into the blog posts and a link as well. I have also seen a lot of righteous indignation in the journalism blogging world about this. If you give the link and full citation you will make everyone happy. Some might not notice, but some will.

@ecumenix Agree with you! I was talking about quoting words. We have no rights to use pictures unless we have paid for them or they are known tio be in the public domain.

For quotes, it might help to include a link back to the source where you found the quote in the first place.

As for photos, you cannot re-use a photo without permission unless, as stated elsewhere here, it’s specifically licensed as Public Domain or Creative Commons. You can find numerous Creative Commons photos on Flickr.

One other freebie: you can freely use any photos found on federal government websites, such as ours. Since taxpayers paid for them, taxpayers own them.

But the same does not apply to .edu websites, even if the university is a public university. Unless otherwise noted, .edu photos are copyrighted by the regents or trustees of the university.