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Legal threats for recommending art

Early last December, as the year before, I put together a series of blog posts, recommending as Christmas gifts various library and library-themed items for sale that I'd found on Etsy or other sites. One post consisted of items purely for putting on the wall: decorative paintings and prints. In order to show readers the visual art I was recommending, I put an image of each item on the blog, along with a direct link to each shop below that image, allowing potential buyers to go directly to where each item could be purchased. People seemed to enjoy the post, and previous ones, and many commented that they were tempted to buy, or would buy, various items I'd selected. This week, I received simultaneously a notification of a comment on that blog post, and an email, with the same content, headed "copyright violation". Hello,  Considering you work for a law firm I am amazed by your lack of knowledge on copyright! The image of X in your post 'Deck the halls