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Posted By: Jeff <cndle4@yahoo.com> In Response To: "royalty free" doesn't mean "copyright free" or even "free." (Bob Baroner)
Monday, 31 October 2005, at 10:24 a.m.
most people just save the image and use it on their own wite. BIG NO NO! If I found one of my images that I had on a site of mine that I was trying to market, and someone just felt it was theirs to use is dead wrong. Whether they have a copyright notice next to it or not, the image belongs to someone, not the person who finds it by searching the net. Not talking about public domain stuff, just photos in general. Using other peoples photos can get you into a great deal of trouble. It is no diff. than seeing a car with the keys in the ignition sitting in a parking lot. This does not mean that you can just go use the car. Just like the photo, the car doesn't belong to you.
I read a case a few years ago where an internet marketer, lost his family home due to his using a photo without haveing permission to do so.
I guess what I am saying is.... make certain you know what you are doing. I don't think that they shun capitalism, I think that they just want a piece of the pie. If you are going to profit because of one of my images, don't you think I should be paid? If photography were so easy, you wouldn't need their images, you could capture your own.
Not trying to be rude, really. I just re-read and it sounds crappy, but I don't mean it that way, just can't think of another way to write it.
Jeff
> EXACTLY
> And most places I have seen that offer "free" images have a rule
> that states you must contact the owner of the image to get approval to use
> it. In my experience, most never approve if it is for use with a baltently
> commercial site or project. I guess "artists" tend to shun
> capitalism.
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