Thanks Friend

You are welcome. I have also found completely free music you can use:

Public Domain Music Downloads

Try these too.

16 websites with Free Stock Images for commercial use | webdesignlessons.com

Bogdan

Hey, great resources really, thanks for sharing!

Looks like, this pictures are coming from Pixabay - Free Images

thanks guys

hm, that's a problem of course. So, if someone posts an image on a public domain site and we use it and later on the real owner detects them on our site can we be sued for that?

btw, a couple bucks can add up to some hundred when we have hundreds of posts

Thanks! Always nice to find websites that offer this :-)

Be very careful with things like this!

If you don't own the copyright, someone else does, and it doesn't have to be the site from which you take it or the person who submitted it there. If it turns out to be someone else, and the someone else decides to send your hosting company a DMCA site take-down notice, or even to sue you, you may not have a leg to stand on.

I agree with the "be careful" posts. The big boys have software trawling the Internet for their images so they can send out invoices for thousands upon thousands of dollars for unauthorised use of their intellectual property.

Cheers,

Neil

This is actually really helpful, thanks a lot!

If there's anything I can do to repay the favour just shoot me a private message! Thanks again

Lots of places to find stock images videos and sounds online, the problem is that they normalyl are not quality or specifically what you need.

You do have to be careful. The site also gives a disclaimer on using them for commercial use, in that you should read the license of each photo carefully.

You can use pictures from Flickr too, provided it is the correct license and you give proper credit.

By law the copyright owner first has to issue a Cease and Desist (C&D) letter giving you a chance (like a month or so) to remove the offending content.

Next you have to happen to be in the same country where the jurisdiction applies.

I'm not saying download with impunity, I'm saying threats of immediate lawsuit are more bark than bite. Since we're all being honest here.

I embed files from FLIKR and that automatically gives credit to the author of the image. Also, I create a lot of my own pictures for internet use. That is the best way. Buy your own camera. Also, you can embed videos from you tube and put them on your web pages.

You have to be careful about using so-called public domain content. You really should verify it. On the public domain music site linked above, the second song I looked at is licensed under the creative commons license and attribution is required. This isn't stated with the download.

So many of these sites are just collections gathered by people who have no idea what is legal and what is not. If you get caught using it by the wrong person, it's you who will get in trouble.

Also, I'm not a lawyer, but I have done some research on copyrights. I'm not going to name anyone, and I'm not going to dispense legal advise myself, but suffice it to say some of the advice given in this thread is very much wrong.

This website has a really "smart" picture layout. When you click on
the free pictures the page loads with similar pictures next to your
choice. Those similar pictures are all from paid sites, so they
must be make a killing from ads. If you are not careful you can
end up thinking you are on the same site and use the 'wrong'
picture. So watch the URL carefully. I think they should be
clearer about this from the layout, but I guess that's how they
make their money.

-Ray Edwards

^ Thank you for clarifying and speaking plainly!


Yeah, if you're getting legal advice from a forum, not a good sign!

You can't stop someone from suing - you can't ignore their rights any more than they can ignore yours.

I'm sure some of us would be interested in hearing about experiences (not just caveats) involving legalities here. Flaunting copyright could be a costly game. Doesn't mean it always is, as many IP owners can attest.

All I know is that in my limited experience, I haven't seen a copyright lawsuit without a C&D letter; but I have talked with plenty of business owners who have dealt with C& D letters - and acted on them - but not one lawsuit for copyright violation that didn't first involve a C&D process. Does anyone have experience with this, or only opinions?

Of course you should not incorporate risk into your business! That only makes sense! But people do. And, other people make a living out of spurious copyright infringement suits. Some of them great advocates of "justice" and "rights" and "clean noses."

But if you think collecting on global lawsuits is "inevitable," I suggest a thorough read of a publication like China Law Blog. The "break even point" all too frequently trumps justice, unfortunately. There are many creative ways to go after a violation or collection; and there are many people worldwide in the business of violating copyright and IP from other nations. They don't seem to take our laws as seriously as some of us do.

Why risk it? At the same time, why live in constant fear of other people's bluster.


You can get sued, you can have a judgment against you, but collection is not always so easy. Read that blog and see why such lawyers do such brisk business. Again, not advocating breaking the law, just telling it like it is. The nation of China, for example, has whole industries devoted to IP violation.

I've gotten such a letter for one inadvertant violation. Has anyone been sued who has not gotten such a letter? Not advocating violating copyright here! Just informing folks that if you want to go after someone's violation, it's most likely with a C & D letter first. You have to give them the chance to recognize their infringement before suing them. And that's only in the US, for all I know you have to kill a chicken in another country. Sorry to be the bearer of news that US law is not ipso facto global law the way some of us see it.

Sorry to be gray and not black and white about the potential consequences. As for actions, I advocate the ethical choices - researching a product's IP & copyright first. More sustainable. And not so difficult to manage with a little effort.

One of my favorites is The Leading Source Of Free Stock Photos - stock.xchng

You would they think would spruce up the site a little bit since they are so dang popular, make some more money

here's another free stock photo site: The Leading Source Of Free Stock Photos - stock.xchng

okay, Justin above just posted the same. Cool

Awesome! I have found that you can find a lot of those stock images on Google Images too, which is free, but you can't be 100% sure if they are copyright.

Go to Google Images and mess around with the advanced settings... you'll find free-to-use photos of any subject!

After reading the risks accompanied with using public domain stuff I would like to ask this then:

How do I know after buying some images from a seller on a well-known image selling site that I bought from the real owner???