One of the most common licenses for free images online is that of CC by 2.0 or Creative Commons 2.0, as seen in the image above. Using these licensed images are free to share and adapt “for any purpose, even commercially.” You can freely use and share this image but only after following the license terms.
The terms state, “Attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.”
So you see, finding totally free images on Google is not as simple as one may think. There is a lot you must do to insure that the image you are using is really free, plus you will still have to give attribution to the creator of the image once you find that information.
A BETTER WAY TO FIND FREE IMAGES
If you haven’t already gone through my training on where to find 100 percent free images for your website, check out the two links below. Each tutorial has links to website directories containing totally free images under the CC0 license, which means you can freely use images in any way you like and NO attribution is needed at all. When at all possible, always make sure to use either CC0 or Public Domain licensed images.
FREE IMAGES FOR A WEBSITE – FREE TO USE, NO ATTRIBUTION
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FREE IMAGES FOR WEBSITES – USE WITHOUT ANY RESTRICTIONS
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I recently saw another eBay seller using one of my custom product pictures the other day because she was selling the same product I was. I contacted her and she removed it.
If she didn't I could have legally caused problems for her, especially since the picture she was using had a subtle watermark I placed on it. Though I couldn't actually sue her because this happened on eBay, I could get eBay to remove her listing and place a warning on her seller's account.
Would the owner have any claim on the new version created?
Just being devil's advocate here. Curious to know.
Personally I feel that bigger and more established websites would be the types of websites that would be the ones to complain the most. But that is just only my opinion.
