If you modify the image to make it more original, still give credit to the original source.

I often do this and will state “Original image(s) from Pixabay — modified by author”. I get most of my images from Pixabay.

This seems like the way to handle images from movies and television as well. Using images from places such as IMDB.com or Netflix can be tricky, especially in a community such as CineTV.

One thing I would suggest for the cover image is to delay sourcing the image until after the first 120 characters of a post.

When people find our content from the search engine they use, the search engine will show the first 120 characters of the post in the search engine results page. It would be a waste of time and effort to produce a high-quality post only for the search engine to display “Original image(s) from Pixabay — modified by author”; that's not what we want the search engines to display.

This is where the Summary field on the Publish page at PeakD is crucial since the search engine will show that text instead. In the case of Ecency or Hive.Blog (or even LeoFinance), the first 120 characters of the text body serve the same purpose as the PeakD Summary field.

I apologize for the length of this comment, but I thought that detail would be useful for bloggers here to know.

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