https://postimages.org/ seems to be a simple, reliable tool for hosting images --
If you use the site, choose your image and once it is uploaded another page will appear with a list of options. Make sure and click on the small blue and white icon at the right of the second line, "Direct Link." This action copies your image, so that when you paste it to DU there will be no advertising with the picture.
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I have been posting onto DU from postimage and then just closing postimage. Perhaps you can decipher all this more simply than I can.
From postimages' Terms of Use:
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By uploading a file or other content or by making a comment, you represent and warrant to us that (1) doing so does not violate or infringe anyone else's rights; and (2) you created the file or other content you are uploading, or otherwise have sufficient intellectual property rights to upload the material consistent with these terms. With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant PostImage a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content, including embedded (hotlinked) into third-party websites otherwise not affiliated with PostImage. To the extent that you delete any such file or content from the public portions of our site, the license you grant to PostImage pursuant to the preceding sentence will automatically terminate, but will not be revoked with respect to any file or content PostImage has already copied and sublicensed or designated for sublicense.
By downloading an image or copying other user-generated content (UGC) from PostImage, you agree that you do not claim any rights to it. The following conditions apply:
You may use UGC for personal, non-commercial purposes
You may use UGC for anything that qualifies as fair use under copyright law, for example journalism (news, comment, criticism, etc.), but please include an attribute ("PostImage" or "courtesy of PostImage"
next to where it is displayed.
You may not use UGC for non-journalistic commercial purposes, except if the UGC items in question have been legally uploaded by you (i.e. you are the copyright holder), or if you have otherwise obtained a license from the copyright owner. Posting photos of goods you sell is okay; ripping off a competitor's catalogue is not.
Your use of UGC is at your own risk. POSTIMAGE MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, and you will indemnify and hold PostImage harmless from any copyright infringement claims arising out of your use of the UGC.
You may not copy or use any portions of our site that are not UGC except within the limits of fair use.
