Big Brother is watching your web images!
0 Comments Published by ITSGUI Man on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM.
Are you sure that all your images are legal?
The big stock photo companies, such as Getty & Corbis are employing companies such as PicScout to go through the web and check images, ensuring that they are correctly licensed. The software they use is very sophisticated and can track images regardless of whether they have been resized, flipped, coloured or embedded in a montage of other images.
The whole copyright issue around images is not cut-and-dried and for the inexperienced and experienced the differences between royalty free and rights managed is a bit of a minefield as different companies adopt different rules.
Don't just go to Google and grab an image and use it on your site however small as you could easily get caught out. Google just say, in nice small lettering, 'this image maybe copyrighted'. That covers them, but not you!
My favourite stock photo companies are IStockPhoto, Crestock and Fotolia as they have such a vast range of images, vectors, vids and logos to choose from.
Don't wait until you get a letter through the door demanding thousands, do something about it now! You have been warned....
The big stock photo companies, such as Getty & Corbis are employing companies such as PicScout to go through the web and check images, ensuring that they are correctly licensed. The software they use is very sophisticated and can track images regardless of whether they have been resized, flipped, coloured or embedded in a montage of other images.
The whole copyright issue around images is not cut-and-dried and for the inexperienced and experienced the differences between royalty free and rights managed is a bit of a minefield as different companies adopt different rules.
Don't just go to Google and grab an image and use it on your site however small as you could easily get caught out. Google just say, in nice small lettering, 'this image maybe copyrighted'. That covers them, but not you!
My favourite stock photo companies are IStockPhoto, Crestock and Fotolia as they have such a vast range of images, vectors, vids and logos to choose from.
Don't wait until you get a letter through the door demanding thousands, do something about it now! You have been warned....
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