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How can I add free Copyright to my website?

Image Copyright? What can/can't I use?

  • Hi I am looking to images on my website. I am not selling anything on my website and its not for profit. Its just writing up about good products at the moment (best iPhone apps, nicest aftershaves, Must have shirts etc.) I want to add images but I'm unsure about copyright and have the following questions: - If I put at the bottom of the Image where I sourced it can i use it? - Taking pictures of products? Say i cant find an uncopyrighted picture of an iPhone. if i took a picture of my iPhone and put it on my site would the iPhone not be copyrighted by apple? Or would this be okay? -For my top 10 apps review - i would like to put the app logos on the article. The logo is not to make my own logo but just to make the article look more interesting when I write up about each app. Can I do this? Thanks!

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    You would have to check the terms and conditions of the website that you took the pictures from. Generally, you are not allowed to copy pictures and put them on your own website without permission, but you can provide a link to the picture. You can ask for permission from the administrator of the site or the photographer. You can take pictures of a product and put it online. iPhone is patented by Apple (BTW, who the hell let a company make the name of the world's most common fruit a registered trademark???), but your phone is not theirs. You paid for it, you do with it whatever you want to. Well... almost. With your logic, you would not be allowed to put a picture of a car or airplane online because it is "copyrighted" by Chevrolet or Boeing. Or how about a Nike T-shirt? You should only be allowed to put photographs of naked people online, because their clothing is "copyrighted":-) Not sure about the logo, but sounds a little scratchy. If you take multiple pictures and make it one, that's not your own work, you need permission from the copyright owner of every picture, even more, you would need their permission to alter their work. Would you copy parts of ten different books, put them together and publish it as your own book? I know students do it all the time, but it's not right.

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I Should know this You are sometimes allowed to use pictures that are not yours Only If you list ALL Copy rights toward it Check what it says where you got the picture It should CLEARLY state if you can use it and for what purpose If your the use is not for profit most the time it's O k , again Only if you List Correctly MlA citing methods say the pictures name was Cookies being Baked and Photographer was John Doe and you got it from Health Magazine Caption Source [ Health Magazine,2012, Cookies being Baked , John Doe Photographer ] You really have to be careful

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