Aquiring Images for Blog

Discussion in 'Legal Issues' started by sryder, May 24, 2009.

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    I am going to be starting a sports directed blog and have a question...

    If I want to post something about last nights game or similar - what is the best way to get images? Would like to use recent images obviously but don't want to get in trouble after a while, when it becomes popular. ;-)

    How do sites aquire the images? For example that perezhilton.com or whatever, how do they get images?
     
    sryder, May 24, 2009 IP
  2. myp

    myp Well-Known Member

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    You need to look at the licenses for the images and see what they allow. Generally, public domain and most GNU licenses will let you use images royalty-free. Some creative commons licenses will ask you to give credit via a link back. Just look around the net and see what you can find.

    Being a sports blogger myself, I know that some of the professional leagues are more strict on this issue than others and you should really check out the league's policies on images as well.
     
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    sryder Active Member

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    Thanks for the feedback.

    I just noticed that your sports blog is from the same sport as my blog would be ;-) How do you rind that league?

    How does one define public domain and GNU licenses?
     
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    Most image sites will tell you what license their images are under. Most sites that don't probably don't want you using the image, but you can always inquire about it. I don't really use images on that blog and I know that most of the other blogs in my niche don't either, probably because that league is very protective of its rights.
     
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    just as a follow up question.... if one wanted to use an AP image, who would we contact?
     
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    Basically you have a couple of options:

    Take them or create them yourself,
    License the rights to use them,
    Purchase them,
    Ask for permission.
     
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    Are you looking for stock images, or specific targeted images?

    I found a blog post (not my site, just sharing here) that lists over a 100 free stock image sources; haven't tried them all, but the one's I checked were ok. Details below, I'm not able to post links so you'll have to copy/paste (after removing the spaces

    www .virtualhosting. com/ blog/2007/100-legal-sources-for-free-stock-images/
     
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