These various sites are part of a universal force on the Web that stresses the proper way of using the graphics from free graphic resources such as this one. It is so important for newcomers to review the information at these sites. Remember, free graphic resources are doing a great service to those website creators who are not graphically able themselves. The least a user of graphics can do is respect the creator of the graphics by following the rules of the road as stated in these various sites. The 11th Commandment is Moyra's awareness-raising campaign to honor the creative web graphic artists on the web.
Silver clearly explains the harm done from swiping art images off the web.
P lagiarism Network. Information about Copyrights, copyright awareness and links to legal sites. Reasons why not to ever reference or link a graphic off of someone else's server. The big happening on October 1, and yes, yours truly helped come up with the idea. All of the above link badges, with the exception of the 11th commandment, were designed by me.