Single post in Regarding Art Theft

Basically, yeah - you need to link back. Unless the artist states that it isn't necessary. A lot of this is basically down to the artist themselves. If they say it's free-to-use and they don't care if they're attributed for the work then... Well, that's it. They've blatently stated that they don't care. The problem there is that we, as enforcers of this rule, basically need to know that they have this stated. We can go looking for it ourselves, sure, but it's a great help if the artist stating "Yes, it's fine" is linked, or a screenshot is taken and posted, or something like that. If we have to go looking and the image has been removed from where you found it saying "Yes, it's free to use, no credit necessary", then... Y'know, we don't see that. You might have, but your word isn't proof. A screenshot is far more evidential than someone saying "It was to free-to-use". Save yourself any potential issue and take a minute to grab a screenshot. It really isn't that hard xD