Thread:Undead Jastus/@comment-104549-20171227013845/@comment-104549-20180103233901

Almost anything online can be found on Google, just because of how search engines work—it's definitely not a release for use by other parties. Whether Fair Use might properly be applied to such an image is a separate question, and one each user has to decide for himself by analyzing the four factors in regards to each image. But no, just because an image appears in a search engine does not in any way imply that image's author has released it for public use. DeviantArt is a good example; by using the right search terms you can find most DA images on Google Image search, but if you go to the image page you'll notice it has copyright marked.