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Chủ Nhật, 24 tháng 11, 2013

Copyright On Fantasy Landscape Photos

By Georgia Diaz


Before you use a fantasy landscape photos, make sure to check its copyright license. Not all pictures that you see on the web are free to use. Some pictures are copyrighted. If you can use the pictures, you may have to acknowledge the owner of the material.

There are also photographers who do not require users of pictures they took to acknowledge them. Acknowledging someone's works may involve putting the name of the person who took the shot or a link to his website. These photographers have websites.

When you give credit to a person, you acknowledge that he owns the material that you are using and that you put the name of the owner's name in plain sight where viewers of the materials can see it right away. These owners allow the use of the materials as long as you acknowledge them. So an acknowledgment is needed.

Other owners of such materials do not mind that their materials are used for any purposes as long as credit is given to them. When unsure about the kind of license that the material has, check with the owner. Contact the owner of the material and ask permission if you can use the content or pictures for your own use.

Of course, the pictures are the owners' intellectual property but the decision as to whether they want to receive money out of it or they simply want to be acknowledged for their work really depends on the individual owner. Consider yourself lucky if the owner of the material only wants to be acknowledged and do not want your money. Here is the zinger.

Most probably you can have the name of the photographer as a footnote in everything that is written in the tarpaulin where the picture is printed. The creative commons license is just one of the many copyright licenses utilized by creative materials owners whose works are available online. Before you grab a picture that you see on the web, make sure to check if this is copyrighted or not.

When this is, then make sure to read the information on its copyright. The legal terms and the details of the license might be too much for some people. People are not used to hearing legal terms and sometimes the legalese is just too complicated to comprehend.

Contact the owner of the picture to inquire about the available rights that you can have over it. If you have questions, do not hesitate to clear it out with him. If there is one person who can better explain to you what sort of right you can have over his works, then it is the owner of the copyrighted material.

If you want to know even a little something about copyrights that are being used online, check the creative commons license. Take note that there may be other types of licenses. The internet can provide you some valuable education about these licenses available for fantasy landscape photos.




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