Would it be a violation of copy right if I.........

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If I got any old copy righted image off the internet (IE Google Images) of Charlie Sheen lets say, and put it on my blog or private website and then took an image of that website with that image on it. Would that be a copy right violation?

Probably not. It would most likely fall under "fair use," especially if it was for non-commercial purposes.

IANAL.

Sorry. Did not explain properly.
If I then put that image of that private website with the copyrighted image up on my public
blog.

It would probably still be fine.

There's a very quick, very brutal way to find out: Do it and see who comes after you.

The reason I say "brutal" is that depending on who owns the copyright and who owns the right to market the photograph, the response can be extremely unfriendly. Copyright is copyright. It doesn't matter how many years have passed. If the rights to market are in the hands of someone like Corbis or Getty Images, the first contact they make with you may be a bill.

You say the image of Charlie Sheen is copyrighted. If you know it's copyrighted, do you know who the copyright holder is? A much gentler way to find out is simply to ask them.

Heh... that's what most parties do, including entities like Youtube...

There's an old (still very fun) game called Freedom Force. It was about a 1960s avengers style comic book hero team. The company that made it could not afford to license marvel or dc characters... So, they used pastiches of characters (i.e. Minute Man in place of Captain America etc...), but they also made the game easily moddable..

Soon there were thousands of free,fan made skins and models for marvel and dc comics characters...

All the skins and models were free, fair use items... But that did not stop the legal department at Marvel from harassing/intimidating everyone (including me) that was making and hosting marvel character skins and models... By contrast DC never bothered anyone for making and hosting skins/models.

Copyright infringement is in the eye of the beholder, and it really depends on who owns the rights and how bored their legal department is....