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Old 26-11-2014, 04:21 PM
cjb (Chris)
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Hi guys,

I'm a commercial photographer by trade and the simple answer is you take it you own it. The only variation with this is if you are taking an image of a person (model) you may need them to sign a "model release" giving you the rights to use their image for profit. An interesting story for you - I was teaching Advertising Graphics students at TAFE in the early 2000's and my students submited me work to be marked. All of them had used images "stolen" from websites to create their work and about 50% had stolen images from my website to use in their work I failed the lot of them and they all complained that all their other lectures encouraged them to "steal" images. Moral of the story - people are lazy and too cheap to pay commercial photographers for their work and will steal images if they think they can get away with it - Watermarking is the only real protection you have if you put high res images on the web

Cheers,

Chris
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