> The artist is losing nothing, just gaining another link to his/her site.

The artist loses the right to determine where and how her work will/will not
be displayed.

The artist loses the right to determine the quality of representation her
work will receive. When these services create thumbnail images of an
artist's work, they have modified, duplicated, and bastardized a copyrighted
piece of work without payment and without permission.  And judge for
yourself the quality of those thumbnails.

Believe it or not, not all artists are on the web just looking to up their
hit counter.  And some artists don't want their work displayed in the midst
of Aunt Gert's Vacation-in-Florida photos or Uncle Henry's "art photos" of
Aunt Gert mowing the lawn in her string bikini.

Claire

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