You will get a lot of information about using stock photos and images and copyright laws if using photos from other websites.Many people wonder where to get free images for using on their blogs or websites.
morguefile.com has plenty of great free photos, and you can find photos on commons.wikimedia.org that are royalty free.The images are free on both sites but there are some rules to credit the photographer like sending a mail how you are going to use their pictures but you don't need a strict permission to post their pictures.
You may email a webmaster to use the picture on their site asking for permission.Its not difficult to get permission by them as long as you are going to use it positively.
Basically images on the net are copyrighted unless it says otherwise.The permission shouldbe taken to use them to be on the safe side avoiding any copyright issues.So if you use them without permission and/or payment its spam ,stealing or something else illegal.
A legal way to post images that you dont own is to give a link to its source i.e that particular site.
You should always save the images/photos to your computer before you upload it anywhere online.In this way, you will not be depending on that particular photosharing sites server but you should not be also stealing someone's bandwidth for the image's use.
morguefile.com has plenty of great free photos, and you can find photos on commons.wikimedia.org that are royalty free.The images are free on both sites but there are some rules to credit the photographer like sending a mail how you are going to use their pictures but you don't need a strict permission to post their pictures.
You may email a webmaster to use the picture on their site asking for permission.Its not difficult to get permission by them as long as you are going to use it positively.
Basically images on the net are copyrighted unless it says otherwise.The permission shouldbe taken to use them to be on the safe side avoiding any copyright issues.So if you use them without permission and/or payment its spam ,stealing or something else illegal.
A legal way to post images that you dont own is to give a link to its source i.e that particular site.
You should always save the images/photos to your computer before you upload it anywhere online.In this way, you will not be depending on that particular photosharing sites server but you should not be also stealing someone's bandwidth for the image's use.
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