Typically, pictures posted to the internet become part of the public domain. That's certainly the case with pics uploaded to image hosting services like Photobucket.com. As long as you give credit to the original poster, you should be able to copy his/her pictures to your hard disk without requesting permission in advance, upload them to your own Photobucket or other image hosting service account, and then post them here. Or, if you're using a Windows workstation, you can simply right-click the original image, go to the bottom of the menu and click on "Properties", highlight and copy the Address of the image, and then post it here preceded by an [img] prefix and [/img] suffix.

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Well... hopefully you get his permission. But you most certainly DON'T HAVE to have it. Once you put pics on a hosting service, that's it. You don't retain much in the way of rights to them. Whether someone perceives it that way or not.

Now, it's a totally different situation if someone has his own website on which he can host pictures.

After you remove your Content from the Photobucket Website we will cease distribution as soon as practicable, and at such time when distribution ceases, the license to such Content will terminate. If after we have distributed your Content outside the Photobucket Website you change the Content’s privacy setting to "private," we will cease any further distribution of such "private" Content outside the Photobucket Website as soon as practicable.