Hi guys,
I had a few questions to ask regarding copyright infringement
1. Where do you guys get your images from? Google? Can you be sued for that? I noticed that there are many photosites online such as stock photo that allow paid memberships, and these websites clearly state that using their images without their approval is a felony. My question is what about those that do not have such disclosure statements? Can we use the images from those websites without any penalty? Is a reverse image search adequate enough to check that it is unique?
2. I read somewhere that we can alter the image. However what does that imply. For instance if you look at the below image, I bet the image of the girl has been cut from somewhere (and lets assume the background was some nice scenery such as a island image, which again is cut out from another image). Does this constitute copyright infringement? The image of the girl and the image of the island might both have been photoshoped from elsewhere and pasted on top of each other?
3. Do any of you guys purchase envato offers or premium wp themes? Do you find that that is better/ worse? Why?
4. I read this somewhere on the forum, but what if we use a fake profile picture (that shows up as G authorship). Basically just any one random person from the 800m FB users in the world. I’m quite IM’ers use fake profiles, but anyone get affected/copyrighted by this?
5. I also hear that many people choose flickr photos and then reference the flickr member in their post. What are your thoughts on this?
I had a few questions to ask regarding copyright infringement
1. Where do you guys get your images from? Google? Can you be sued for that? I noticed that there are many photosites online such as stock photo that allow paid memberships, and these websites clearly state that using their images without their approval is a felony. My question is what about those that do not have such disclosure statements? Can we use the images from those websites without any penalty? Is a reverse image search adequate enough to check that it is unique?
2. I read somewhere that we can alter the image. However what does that imply. For instance if you look at the below image, I bet the image of the girl has been cut from somewhere (and lets assume the background was some nice scenery such as a island image, which again is cut out from another image). Does this constitute copyright infringement? The image of the girl and the image of the island might both have been photoshoped from elsewhere and pasted on top of each other?
3. Do any of you guys purchase envato offers or premium wp themes? Do you find that that is better/ worse? Why?
4. I read this somewhere on the forum, but what if we use a fake profile picture (that shows up as G authorship). Basically just any one random person from the 800m FB users in the world. I’m quite IM’ers use fake profiles, but anyone get affected/copyrighted by this?
5. I also hear that many people choose flickr photos and then reference the flickr member in their post. What are your thoughts on this?
