Tech Tips for Non-Tech People!
Original Air Date: Dec 9, 2019
Image Copyright Reminder
Today’s tip is an important reminder to anyone that uses images that they find on the Internet for personal or professional reasons.
Just because you can find the image online through a search site, it doesn’t mean you can use it without permission.
If you aren’t careful, you can end up in a legal process that could cost you thousands of dollars per image because you infringed on someone’s copyright.
If you’ve got a website loaded with images and you have no idea where they came from, you should remove or replace them for your own protection.
There are a whole host of options for acquiring images that you can use for free, including the folks at Getty Images or by using the usage rights filter when doing a Google Image search.
You can also do a search for creative commons licenses, which is when the owners of the image provide them for free with a few basic terms of use.
Images can also be purchased for no more than a couple of bucks through sites like Canva.com or BigStockPhoto.com.
For a more detailed understanding of this important issue, read my column here: https://www.datadoctors.com/help/columns/21988
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