Comments on: Royalty-Free Images May Not be Liability-Free

By: web design company india

web design company india — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:25:23 +0000

Okay that’s great,

I am thinking royalty free is looking pretty attractive at this point, okay?

And it is attractive, from the “hassle quotient” on my point-of-view.

But in reality rights managed transactions are actually a little less hassle-intensive than you might imagine, while royalty free transactions are not completely “hassle free”:

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:28:42 +0000

This is timely for me to find this post. I was just browsing a popular photo stock agency for a specific picture, which I thought I found. It does have a recognizable face on it. Now I will take precautions to find out if the appropriate releases were obtained. Sounds stupid, but I guess I just assumed this, since its on a site where people go specifically for photos. Good post and info…thanks!

By: Microstockinsider

Microstockinsider — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:57:11 +0000

Images from any reputable stock agency will be accompanied by a model and property release if needed. Virgin got into hot water because they (or their contracted designers) took images from flickr. Flickr is not a stock photo company. As a photographer its been very gratifying to see this story unroll, when I first saw the poster campaign on the subway platforms here in Sydney I began to thing that advertising had reached a whole new depth - taking free images from the internet (and to be honest rather good ones! its was a cleaver campaign). In the end the poster campaign got exactly what it deserved, excellent media coverage for virginmobile, and a lot of trouble too.

By: john

john — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:35:26 +0000

I contribute to a few well known stock photography sites and they will not accept any images of recognisable people without a fully signed model release form. When someone buys the image they also receive the model release form.

I have recently started my own free image site as well at http://www.freegraphicscentre.com (sorry about the plug) but I don’t have any recogniseable people there because of the problems in obtaining a model release

There is one exception to using recognised people without model release and that is if the image is used for editorial purposes.

I am not sure whether you could use images on a blog if it is part of story (like the news) but maybe I ill leave that for someone else to try!

By: Podkłady muzyczne

Podkłady muzyczne — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:59:03 +0000

Good post.

Thanks,

By: Cruella

Cruella — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:29:43 +0000

nice

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:18:13 +0000

Im agree with tapety. This is very important in internet. Its nice that someone is still talking about this problems.

By: tapety

tapety — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:36:22 +0000

It is good that someone writes articles which really matters something. Thank you for this article, it’s full of knowledge which is hard to find in tons of rubbish in our famous world wide web. Regards and good luck!

By: Sagem Phones

Sagem Phones — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:52:18 +0000

But I cant’ get my head round if a photographer takes a photo of someone, then someone uses his image, how can he sue the person? Any compensation should go the person’s image he took right?

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:57:50 +0000

Personally, I feel a bit angry, if the photographers arn’t doing the correct paper works. We designers are left vournurable to any law suit.