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RE: WHAT?? Upload an image to steemit, and it will be gone in a couple of months?
The way STEEMIT handles uploading of images is not very well thought out, bordering on the purposefully inconvenient. Why are we ceding responsibility to third party apps that have no affiliation or reponsibility to STEEMIT? What's so complicated about a mechanism where we can upload images to STEEMIT directly so that they're kept on their proprietory servers and no one else's?
... quite simply, because if copyright images show up on steemit.com as the host, steemit.com (the domain owner) can get sued.
...that's why.
Wouldn't that apply to copyrighted linked images also? As the medium by which these images are displayed and disseminated to the public, they'd get hit either way wouldn't they?
Nope. The hoster that has it on their hard drive.. and broadcasts it, is the one that is given notice of the copyright violation.
Google has already been through this... Google (as money rich as they are) was hauled into court many times for the reason you just said:
"As the medium by which these images are displayed and disseminated to the public"
Google won their case, and set a precedent.
If they are simply linking to internet material, and not providing it... they are exempt.
I guess that explains STEEMIT's logic :-)