Clarification on Image Copyright Issues
Was wondering if anyone could enlighten me on issue of image copyrights?
It has been bothering me for a very long time. I am running a sports blog, so naturally i would like to use a lot of athlete's images, people like Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods etc.
However, I am very afraid of infringing on copyrights when i use them, so much so that very often i dun use it at all. Right now, Zemanta (for wordpress) helps a little by pulling images from wiki and allowed sources, but the images are usually not fantastic.
I noticed many many sports blogs are using similar high quality images as well, some of them seem to straight off Olympics or from Getty Images.
I think its reasonable to think that very popular sports blog or authority sites like NYTimes, or NBC probably purchased the rights, maybe from Getty to use it, but i dun think the smaller blogs would pay that amount of money.
I understand there are free stock photos online, but they do not have pictures of athletes from NBA, EPL, Roger Federer, etc. Can anyone tell me if it is possible for me to just search online for images and copy and use them? If not, then can anyone tell me how come there are so many sports sites that uses them? Is there any way to go about this? Anyone have any experience to share?
sorry for the long post, i really need a clarification on this.
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