Copyright and Photos

  • What is the deal with using photos on your site? I know some resources (TKA) specifically say that you should use Flickr and avoid copyright infringement that way.

    Others have told me to use Google Images and find photos there.

    Thoughts on this?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    It’s pretty simple.

    Don’t use images you don’t LEGALLY have the right to use.

    Of course, figuring out if you have the legal right to them is … Well. Yeah. About as fun as a root canal. I would suggest using images sourced as creative commons (wiki commons images, ones listed as for reuse on flickr etc).

    A few years ago I decided to skirt around the whole issue and just buy the rights to content I wanted to use. There are a lot of royalty free sites, like iStockPhoto that have some pretty good graphics/icons/photos available at reasonable prices (this isn’t an advertisement, just an example site, there are many to choose from).

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