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How to avoid Copyright Violation ??

Posted by vyasraj1 • 11/03/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: copyright violation, legal post

Hello friends,

I blog about cars : carsonroll.blogspot.com
Unfortunately I copied a car image from Google search and used in one of my blog posts. And then a week after I got a mail claiming copyright violation !! Although the matter is resolved, I don't want to repeat my mistake.

I need to know - is there way in which I get to know that an image on Google search is copyright protected or not ?

I need a way out to prevent further illegal use of images.

User Comments

11/03/08

dosox

Check out that respective website and take a look at their copyright...
If they don't have the copyright(thing) you can ask for a permission or you can link back to their site.

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1. 11/03/08
  
  wigwam2theorem
  
  Unless they state that you can use it, you need to ask permission. Linking back to it does not get you off the hook.
11/03/08

vyasraj1

ok... thanks for the solution, I liked the idea of linking back.

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11/03/08

ModelElaine

search "royalty free" images on google. Lots of photo sites have pictures you can get for free. You must make sure it says "royalty free" because those same sites have pictures they sell along with free pictures

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11/03/08

deineshd

Yes once i have also violated dailyblogtips.com copyright.I designed a blogger template same as dailyblogtips.com and published in my blog to download for everyone.

After that i wrote a mail to daniel the author of dailyblogtips.com and said him about my work.and he said me to delete the download link . I also deleted the link.From that time we are good blogging friends.

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11/03/08

wehireu

Ask them first before you put the images up or search a place like www.wikimedia.org. This also gives a nice list of images which are public domain. I use this list quite a bit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources

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11/03/08

ModelElaine

if you opt for not using royalty free images, you can ask photographers to provide images for your blog. a lot of photographers will be happy to give you free images with watermark because it gives them tons of free promotion. I will give you example. I had a guest author, a photographer on my blog who wrote an article for my blog and posted his work here everything-las-vegas.blogspot.com/2008/10/las-vegas-wedding-photographer.ht... As you can see, the contact for booking info is there, so it is free advertizing

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11/03/08

vyasraj1

Thanks.. for the responses and now I have much better options,
@modelElaine : I never thought that photographers may also be looking for publicity. Nice suggestion, I will look forward to it from now on.
@wehireu : thanks for providing links to public domain images.

With your kind effort I hope I won't fall into this copyright violation issue again.

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11/03/08

Friday13

Also search for work licensed under Creative Commons:
search.creativecommons.org/

Lots of those on Flickr. And everything in Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org/) is either public domain or under a CC/free-use license.

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11/03/08

Louise

I think you should assume that unless you've taken it yourself, ALL images are copyright protected. All you have to do if you want to use an image is get in touch with the owner, explain what you want it for and ask permission. Then give a copyright line when you reproduce it and Bob's your uncle. This weekend I've written a kind of travelly piece for my blog (coming tomorrow) and picked up a number of really great pics from Flickr, some from pro photographers, some from tourists. Not one turned me down. And they're all happy to have the exposure and the link back to their Flickr photostream...

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11/03/08

morgantj

I curious how they found you so fast. Did you actually copy it or did you simply hotlink to it? Meaning use the url to the img that was hosted on their server so that it would show up on your page without actually having to host the image. If you hotlinked to it, that would explain how they found it so fast on your site.

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1. 1/22/09
  
  justsaver
  
  Yea, I'm thinking he hotlinked it too. Using their image they probably don't mind too much, but using their bandwidth is bad.
1/22/09

monaco

What about screenshots? Can they be used?

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1/22/09

darren1985

Nice info here. Thanks for sahring. :-D

@Monaco
Screen Shot i suppose it should be okay. It's only a violation if you open the picture and then screen shot it. Hope that helps!

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1. 1/22/09
  
  PetLvr
  
  that was bad advice by the way
1/22/09

webbanshee

Hi , thx for the post and the very useful replies.

Regards

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1/22/09

arjunu

dude you have poor observation. When you
search for images in google image search. the results are display and you click on a picture for it's larger size. a new page opens with the picture where you have too click on it again for a bigger one. on the very page is given whether the picture may be copyright protected or not.

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