Lump is a visual search engine, so we conform to the same basic copyright and ownership rights respect that other image search engines do.
1. Credits: Each image is linked to its referring site. You'll also find the name of the referring site in the title tag and the image alt tag. In other words - we really encourage the user to find the original source and engage with the content on its own site.
2. Licensing and copyright notice: All photos are copyright by their author. You'll see that in the footer of the site. Since images published on the web do not have embedded copyright information, that's about all I can do. :(
3. Compensation: There is no mechanism for compensating the creators of original works who have chosen to publish them on the web and allowed them to be indexed by search engines.
And, of course, we honor robots.txt. :)
I think I'm doing the right thing within the boundaries of the technology we're stuck with. Let me know if you have any questions.
Lump is a visual search engine, so we conform to the same basic copyright and ownership rights respect that other image search engines do.
1. Credits: Each image is linked to its referring site. You'll also find the name of the referring site in the title tag and the image alt tag. In other words - we really encourage the user to find the original source and engage with the content on its own site.
2. Licensing and copyright notice: All photos are copyright by their author. You'll see that in the footer of the site. Since images published on the web do not have embedded copyright information, that's about all I can do. :(
3. Compensation: There is no mechanism for compensating the creators of original works who have chosen to publish them on the web and allowed them to be indexed by search engines.
And, of course, we honor robots.txt. :)
I think I'm doing the right thing within the boundaries of the technology we're stuck with. Let me know if you have any questions.