is LGF violating copyright laws?

For years the neo-fascist and racist blog "LGF" has been following the footsteps of right wing propaganda sites (such as MEMRI) in posting without permission images and video from middle eastern news agencies, particularly Syrian, Palestinian and Iranian. Of course, there is no one to fight a copyright infringement for the "axis of evil" so they get away with it. But now, they've started doing it to western news agencies with specific photographic reproduction clauses displayed right on the pages.

This is the short story by the Telegraph:
Hamas boy band to bring harmony to Gaza

This is the picture in question, by photographer Jeff Gilbert which is now copied over to LGF servers.

This is the bold statement at the bottom of the Telegraph article:

Publishers wishing to reproduce photographs on this page should phone [phone] or e-mail [e-mail]

This is LGF's reproduction of the story text and picture which was on their front page for over a day.

Note that the blog they link to, Israelicool, is actually smart enough not to show the image, but not LGF!

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Nathan Says:
November 1st, 2007 at 7:27 am

Hi, did you get permission from the daily telegraph to post this picture? It says specifically:

Publishers wishing to reproduce photographs on this page should phone [phone] or e-mail [e-mail]

We don’t want to have to report you for copyright violation.

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Aussie Dave Says:
November 1st, 2007 at 7:52 am

Nathan,

I didn’t see that but thanks for pointing that out. I have taken the picture down.

Can’t say I appreciated the threatening tone of your comment, though.