Hand Signed Photo

Hand Signed Photo
Hand Signed Photo

A Guide to Using Stock Photos Correctly

OK, hands up those of us who have not at any one time in your career as a Web Master or designer not used the odd pinched photo or image ripped off from someone else’s website.

Well if we are all honest then probably all of us at any one time have possibly used an image that was either incorrectly procured or not paid for at all. Now there are two ways of looking at this. Firstly theft is theft and there is no denying this and its all very well to talk about “ah well they’re large companies and they would not miss it†but that is escaping the point. The company might well not miss the cash flow (and this in the light of recent events with companies clamping down on harder and harder on copyright theft is doubtful) but the individual photographer will.

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