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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3091593, member: 112&quot;]Here&#039;s the thing, and a lot of folks don&#039;t seem to understand it, so I&#039;ll try and make as simple as I can. As long as you not selling things, and are not charging people to use your website - you can post links to it anywhere on the forum you want to post it. In other words, if you are creating an informational website you CAN promote it and NOT break the rules !</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that doesn&#039;t mean that you can make a 100 posts about the same thing all over the forum is a few days or a week. Doing that would make it spam, and that would be against the rules. But posting about it now and then - you will never have a problem. And if your website is any good, quite the opposite in fact. I might even give ya an Atta Boy for your effort ! And then recommend it to other folks myself !</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As a matter of fact I have. When Darek and I wrote <i>Gold Ducats Of The Netherlands</i> we wanted to use pictures of coins owned by other people. Sometimes they owned the pictures and sometimes they owned the coins and the pictures. And these people ranged from private individuals to auction houses and websites and even museums. The solution was simple, but it did require some effort, all we had to do was &quot;ask&quot;. We explained what we doing and why, and without exception everybody agreed and gave us permission in writing to use the pictures. And that&#039;s not only important it&#039;s imperative - you must get permission <b>in writing</b> ! And every single one had to be credited to the owners under each picture and in a complete list of credits.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>edit - Given the post below mine I&#039;ll add this. Nobody was paid anything, nor did anybody ask to be paid for using their pictures. In some cases they were more than glad to help, and proud to do so. In others maybe they saw advertising value in allowing us to use their pictures and having their names in many places of the book. </p><p><br /></p><p>And this is not was not an exceptional incident, it happens all the time. A great many authors, both paper and website, use pictures owned by others. And to the best of my knowledge none of them ever get paid. You might say it is the industry standard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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