This is seen by the photographer and agents as simple theft.
Do you want the huge risk of legal action? (It was rumoured that companies like Getty Images protect themselves by employing students to look for images that break the copyright law and sue you heavily)
Unless someone specifically grants you rights to use a given image, every picture taken in the United Kingdom (and in most other countries) is considered to be under copyright protection, and the property of the person who took that picture.
Even if you paid for a photo-studio shoot it probably is not your image and you might have to pay again to use it online.
Let me stress something here – this is serious, you really can get sued, and if the person has taken the right steps in copyrighting their picture, you could have to not only pay them a huge amount for stealing their image, you could also be charged damages, which could be serious amounts of money!
Shall we look at a safe way to avoid this issue? And we can
- Laboriously negotiate payment for rights with the photographer or broker
- Go to sites that sell rights for pictures and pay them for the images that you use
- Try using creative commons-licensed content and follow the restrictions specifically placed on each particular image.
The most affordable way is using 'Creative-Commons' licensed images. Creative Commons
is a non-profit system that offers an alternative to full copyright. Basically, it’s a special licensing system that allows people to use content without the hassles of negotiation, licensing and fees. It’s worth spending a few minutes studying the different options available through Creative Commons at http://www.creativecommons.org
is a non-profit system that offers an alternative to full copyright. Basically, it’s a special licensing system that allows people to use content without the hassles of negotiation, licensing and fees. It’s worth spending a few minutes studying the different options available through Creative Commons at http://www.creativecommons.orgIf you want a simple way to have these imgaes you can always go to:
Creative Commons
Flickr have over 13,000 images in the pool and it very important that you understand creative commons licenses when using. Just because they are creative commons licenses, doesn't mean they are available to do anything with.
A good easy page to look at is this one that lists all creative commons licenseswww.flickr.com/creativecommons/
All of these are creative commons licenses (you will see the symbols that can be found on every image on Flickr. The symbols can be seen on the right hand side of the image page under the tags). There are 2 licenses you cannot change in any way. These are the ones with the " = " symbol. The others you can use in your artworks.
If you use the Attribution license (the top one) you can set any license you want to your works including copyright.
(**Note this is the easiest & safest one to use**)
If you use non- commercial (this is the "$" sign with a line through it) -you are not allowed to use in commercial works.
If you use the share alike (this is the backward " c" symbol) - you must assign a share alike license to your works.
Even print out the page & keep alongside you when searching for images. Just always remember never use anything with a "=" sign in your works & please let Flickr know if you find any in the pool.
All of these are creative commons licenses (you will see the symbols that can be found on every image on Flickr
. The symbols can be seen on the right hand side of the image page under the tags). There are 2 licenses you cannot change in any way. These are the ones with the " = " symbol. The others you can use in your artworks.If you use the Attribution license (the top one) you can set any license you want to your works including copyright.
(**Note this is the easiest & safest one to use**)
If you use non- commercial (this is the "$" sign with a line through it) -you are not allowed to use in commercial works.
If you use the share alike (this is the backward " c" symbol) - you must assign a share alike license to your works.
Even print out the page & keep alongside you when searching for images. Just always remember never use anything with a "=" sign in your works & please let Flickr know if you find any in the pool.
OK so how do we find the right images, FREE and avoid legal action?
2) Enter the object you are are searching for and a selection of available images will appear
3) Do not use any of them as the image merely being on Flickr does not allow you to use it
4) Top right is advanced search, select this and you should click your mouse at the bottom of the advanced page on Creative Commons
Creative Commons-licensed content for commercial use are the boxes
you need to check and then hit search
you need to check and then hit search
Now you can start to select that favourite picture and you will have to search through to get a great image (cost you nothing)
5) Click on the image you like and have a preview
6) Bottom right you will most likely see that some right are reserved and now we will check these terms out by clicking on the link 'Some rights reserved' .
You must have some understanding of the licenses or could find yourself getting complaints.
7) You are now off to the Creative Commons (CC) site as a double check that you are allowed to use this image.
8) The CC site will probable call the image a Generic 2.0 image and that is precisley what we wanted.
This should have a web-page heading 'Attribution-Share A like 2.0 Generic' which simply
is all jargon that means you can share it, remix, alter the image, copy, distribute and transmit the image.
9) Look out for the details that say must be attributed and in particular how it should be attributed.
10) You might see some precise instructions and on others it says attribute and that is all.
If the image is vague then we can utilise this find in different ways as the owner has not been bright enough to leave instructions for an attribution statement (I will do another posting on how you should present your attribution statement)
It is courtesy to include CC for Creative Commons, Flickr, the photographer with links to their personal profile and this can be near the image or at the bottom of the page.
11) My advice is that you:
- Make sure you understood the license correctly
- Get the correct HTML code for the IMG tag
- Link the image back to the Flickr photo page
- Give the author of the image proper credits (Attribution)
- Link to the Flickr profile of the author
- Link to the license the image is licensed under
The solution http://www.imagecodr.org/get.php (note no e in coder)
With ImageCodr.org, there is no need to do all this manually, you simply enter in the URL of the picture page (as seen in your browser) you are interested in and ImageCodr.org will generate the ready to use HTML code. It will also display a brief and easy license summary, so you don't get in legal trouble because you missed something. Now your whole attribution statement is done with code to put straight into your blog.
Proper attribution is the only price you need pay and the rest is all trust.
Trust is key and you must attribute at every use of a CC image. I would suggest that you tag each CC image, keep an attribution statement and store them in Picasa or Lightroom. picasaweb.google.com I like Picasa for one BIG reason and that is the simple fact it is FREE!
Now tag with great detail and include that all important attribution code for simple later use.
Have a good look as you might go through 10 or 20 pages to get a great image and if this helps you get 90% of your images it will save you a fortune.
Proper attribution is the only price you need pay and the rest is all trust.
Trust is key and you must attribute at every use of a CC image. I would suggest that you tag each CC image, keep an attribution statement and store them in Picasa or Lightroom. picasaweb.google.com I like Picasa for one BIG reason and that is the simple fact it is FREE!
Now tag with great detail and include that all important attribution code for simple later use.
Have a good look as you might go through 10 or 20 pages to get a great image and if this helps you get 90% of your images it will save you a fortune.
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