Hi, I'm planning to create a site that is mainly image based, but I don't think I will pay for those images though. I'll just scrape them from google images. At most I will just include references and remove them if someone complains. I worry about the legal issues and I'm curious to know how many of you are still paying for your images. thank you.
How many still pay for images?
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HarveyJ
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Sounds like a great idea if you want your arse served to you on a legal platter.
Copyright exists even for things on the internet, and eventually someone will find your site and want what's theirs. Namely, for you to stop, or a chunk of your profits.
Copyright exists even for things on the internet, and eventually someone will find your site and want what's theirs. Namely, for you to stop, or a chunk of your profits.
Sorry for the noobness, but I wonder how do they find out if the images on your site are legally purchased or if they're stolen. I understand that if a person has an original image on his site, then he would know that it's been stolen if he sees it elsewhere. But there are so many copies of the same images on the internet, how can someone tell if each is legally purchased or not? I apologize if this is a stupid question to some.
HarveyJ
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When you purchase an image legally, you will get an insanely hi-res version of it, and a receipt. IF they come knocking, you simply fax them a copy of the receipt and tell them to screw themselves.
Interesting, so everyone here really pay for their images. I would think there is a good amount of people who don't. I guess I'll just have to take another route then since I don't have much money to invest on images. I'm a broke college student trying pay the bills through IM. So far I've create one content site and one phpbay site in my signature. No sales yet.
Was it a picture of a fatty?I got sued because I didn't use a stock photo.
Just throwing that one out there
I have been given C&Ds several times over images that my forum members have used on their profiles etc. Trust me they have hi-tech scanning software which can and will fish out the offenders.
Use SXC.hu - personally I find it perfect.
Use SXC.hu - personally I find it perfect.
I also swear by sxc.hu. There's another thing you can do - you can use the Yahoo! image search API to get a list of images from the web, that correspond to a search phrase. What I do on one of my sites is generate "related images" this way, and simply hotlink to the thumbnails on Yahoo's server. You can then also provide a link to the actual image's URL etc. etc. The gist of it is that you're dynamically generating this image list, and you are providing a reference to the original source, so you are not perpetrating any copyright infringement. You, as a human, are totally removed from the process.
If you're going to do something like that make sure you apply some simple filter to them and remove the meta data. There is attorney's that actually have scrapers. And what they do is checksum images or check the meta data for an image. Then they just scrape all sites looking for matches for their clients. Once they find one you'll get a letter saying you need to pay $10,000 to them for the violation of copyright. It's almost easier now a days to use something like istock unless you take all the recautions.
Check this out if you're using WP - Creative commons photos:
Photo Dropper : The Ultimate Resource for Photos
Photo Dropper : The Ultimate Resource for Photos
Don't even risk Google Images. Stock photos are the way to go.
stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site is a good free one
stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site is a good free one
HarveyJ
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Because those photos are generally uploaded by the people that actually took them.
They don't pull content from the web, they're often the original distributor of said content.
They don't pull content from the web, they're often the original distributor of said content.
photos.com ftw....my last job had a subscription that they renew every year yet I still have the login/pass so basically I get all my stock images for free. woot!
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