{"id":166,"date":"2008-01-09T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=166"},"modified":"2008-01-09T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T19:25:00","slug":"image-copyrights-dont-get-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/01\/09\/image-copyrights-dont-get-sued\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Copyrights – Don’t Get Sued"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read about a young woman today in the Washington Post who had posted her picture with a friend on Yahoo’s Flickr<\/span>. The photo was in turn used by Virgin in a text messaging ad without her consent. Her friend was cropped out, but clearly her image was used. Well that’s a law suit right there! The parents say that they are suing.<\/p>\n

I have blogged about this before, but it needs repeating – Everything on the Web is copyrighted by someone! You can not just right click a picture and use it on a commercial website. In some cases you can use images that you find on the Web for personal use, but never oh never for a commercial use. You are just setting yourself up for a suit when you do that. The bigger company are the more you will be a target and so need to stay squeaky clean on that issue.<\/p>\n

There are some terrific photo sites where you can buy a one time one use image for as low as $1 so there is just no excuse for snatching photos from Google images, from someone else’s<\/span> website, or from a place like Flickr<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read about a young woman today in the Washington Post who had posted her picture with a friend on Yahoo’s Flickr. The photo was in turn used by Virgin in a text messaging ad without her consent. Her friend was cropped out, but clearly her image was used. Well that’s a law suit right there! The parents say that they are suing. I have blogged about this before, but it needs repeating – Everything on the Web is copyrighted by someone! You can not just right click a picture and use it on a commercial website. In some cases you can use images that you find on the Web for personal use, but never oh never for a commercial use. You are just setting yourself up for a suit when you do that. The bigger company are the more you will be a target and so need to stay squeaky clean on that issue. There are some terrific photo sites where you can buy a one time one use image for as low as $1 so there is just no excuse for snatching photos from Google images, from someone else’s website, or from a place like Flickr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}