Image copyright use according to the stock agencies
2010 May 19
I try to regularly highlight sources of creative commons images on this blog, but it’s also important to understand copyright from the view of photographic stock agencies. One of them (their terms of use seems to prevent me from using their trademarked name or from reproducing a screenshot of their website) has recently launched stockphotorights.com, with answers to a lot of basic, but often misunderstood, issues.
Does this also apply to non-commercial use? Educational? And for presentations, rather than websites? Still more complicated… also, who is going to pay for properly licenced photos? There doesn’t seem to be a budget for that. Depressing – you either don’t use images and have boring slides resulting in poor student learning and feedback, pay your own money to use images, or just use them anyway and hope you get away with it. Lose-lose situation.
Wow – some impressive scaremongering there!