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caesar

04-18-2009, 11:18 PM

theodore

04-19-2009, 10:05 AM

Hi

I use Fotolia (fotolia.com) about 1$ per image (apx 500px X 500 px)

and dreamstime.com (about the same with fotolia).

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casca

04-19-2009, 01:13 PM

I was wondering what source you use for your article images.

I use SXC xchange. these images are royalty free

http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml

I'm looking at istockphoto.com images are only 1 dollar for small images that fit in vivvo really nice
http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php

Most of the time I tell the manufacturer to give me high res pictures. If I need a non-product related shot I take it myself. If it's a shot I can't take I go to google images and get it free. Of course I'm cheap, and I don't trust image sites anyway. I have a very strong feeling most of them grabbed the shots from all over the net and said "royalty free". If I'm going to get sued I'd rather know there was a reason. Besides, before you can get sued for using a photo without permission they have to send you a S&D order. It's a demand letter (not even a court order) that says "STOP USING THIS OR ELSE". The solution is to at that point remove the image and they can't sue you. Here in the US it works like that anyway.

In the caption I attribute where the photo came from. There are probably 2 shots on my websites that have these types of photos... There are just too many issues...

1) Did the site I get it from truly own the rights?
2) S&D Order needs to be sent to let you know you are in violation.
3) If I pay someone else is going to come along and take it and piss me off because I paid for it and they didn't. Which means I have to watermark, blah blah.

If anyone ever came up with a valid way to manage photos on the net they'd make millions. Until then I look at photos a little outside of the box. Right now it's just not worth paying for them IMHO.

theodore

04-20-2009, 10:16 AM

My friend casca
i have to total disagree with you (2nd time this month :D)

Regarding the paid photos (at least from Fotolia that i know) its a very fair method for both (photographers and users)
The photographers have a market place to submit their work and gain some money and the users can use their photos (with license) to their website and all are happy :). Also they have good quality shots and most of them are professional.
From the other hand, taken a picture from Google free:
1. You don't know were it comes from (i mean the real source not the website that appeared) so you dont know with which country low have to do.
2. You don't have good quality to the most of them
3.
Besides, before you can get sued for using a photo without permission they have to send you a S&D order. It's a demand letter (not even a court order) that says "STOP USING THIS OR ELSE". The solution is to at that point remove the image and they can't sue you. Here in the US it works like that anyway.
At least for me (and i think for the majority of the people running a website) it not a "benefit" to use a picture without permission waiting the S&D order to remove it!

I strongly beleive that if you want to run a profesional website you have to find a leagal way to use articles and images.

Again this is only my humble opinion :)

casca

04-20-2009, 02:25 PM

Theodore you know you are right ;) This is the second time this month you have disagreed with me. That is the great thing about friends, we can all agree to disagree. Actually though reading what you said, I think I have to say I agree with you. I might actually go on record here and say I could be wrong. My rationalization was/is that I literally have like two (like one, two) pictures that I grabbed from Google. The rest are all either things we photographed or stuff we got from the manufacturer... so "It's not that big of a deal" is the rationale, but you are right. Running a professional website I should absolutely take myself a lot more seriously in regard to this.

Thanks Theodore :)