Blogs that use other people's content

[Ms Naughty]

To clarify, I was not concerned about legal liabilities, more worried about the ins and outs of encouraging people (via links) who are essentially making use of content which they don't hold the license for.

This is the blog that asked for a link
http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/
As I said, I don't know if the pics on that blog are hers or someone elses (although the celeb ones are obviously from elsewhere).

And I also wanted to discuss the idea of "fair use". Blogs like Daze Reader will quote several paragraphs from an article to illustrate an entry, and then link to that article. That could be considered to be "fair use". If someone like ErosBlog does a similar thing, but posts a photo as an example, is that "fair use"?

A hardcopy newspaper needs to license any photos it may use to illustrate it's stories. Are we letting blogs off the hook?