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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MasterEd Premium
Great info as always Robert, but what happens when people don't do the appropriate thing? What does Google do, if anything? I guess what I asking that I haven't seen anyone ask is, what if people just use whatever they like? What are the consequences?

Does Google sandbox your domain or do owners come after you?
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boomergp08 Premium
Google more than likely would not do anything. But if the creator of that image should see it being used on a website, especially one that makes money for the website owner, that person could legally sue the website owner for using an image without their permission.
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MasterEd Premium
Fair enough. I didn't realize that photos can be so, how do you say, sensitive.

Thanks
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boomergp08 Premium
It mainly depends on the person who owns the rights of the image.

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.
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MasterEd Premium
I have another question regarding this. What's to stop people from grabbing photos from Google Images and modifying them and saving them, making it a different photo, per say?

Would the owner have any claim on the new version created?
Just being devil's advocate here. Curious to know.
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boomergp08 Premium
If the owner recognizes that their image was altered/used without their permission, they can make a claim on the new image.

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.
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MasterEd Premium
Thank you sir.
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iainclarke Premium
Thank you Robert. Very useful info. Have a great day
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome and you have a great day too!
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johnwnewman Premium
Great info! Thanks Robert!
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome John. Thanks for stopping by.
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DJ-Yogi Premium
In chrome you can do the same inside the expanded search options.
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boomergp08 Premium
Yes that is how I used to search but this way is a lot more straight forward an option, especially for newbies.
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Kimsh Premium
This is great thanks. Your stuff is always really helpful and very clear to understand. Always a pleasure to read.
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boomergp08 Premium
Thank you Kim. I try to always make my taining as easy to understand so even the newbies can grasp it.
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