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No, I'm not talking about someone stealing the images that you have edited to make your blogskin. What I am talking about here is how the images that you have edited to make your blogskins were probably actually stolen from another site and not properly credited in return.
Popular sites that are often raided, violated, and uncredited include, but are not limited to:
Deviantart: Yes, it is often listed as a resource on many sites, but it is a resource for its resource (brushes, textures, etc), stock images, and downloadables sections. Those are the only areas of deviantart where people can actually use the art that is featured. If you take art from personal artists who submit in photography, photomanipulation, anime, drawing, traditional art, digital art, or any other section, it is considered copyright infringement and it is theft. In other words, you are just as bad, if not worse, than those people who take your layout and do not give you credit.
Except the individuals on deviantart actually put more time into their art that you did on your layout. Oh and it's illegal to take that art. Oh, and you're not even allowed to use it even if you were to give credit. The bottom line is this: if you don't have written permission from the artist, you are not allowed to use it.
gettyimages.com: You're not supposed to use the images at gettyimages.com, because those are actually images that people submit for sale. In other words, it's just like deviantart. All of the vectors on that site where created and submitted by the artists and were meant to be sold. You can't use them if you didn't buy them.
In other words, you're not only stealing the copyrights but you're stealing the artist's profits. Good going.
Brushes: I'm sure that most people don't realize that you actually need to credit brushes, but you do. You need to credit all resources that you use on your layout, because that is part of the agreement when you download the brushes. You using brushes without crediting is like someone using your layout and taking off the credit link.
It's wrong.
Remedies:
1) scanning your own images from magazines.
2) drawing your own images
3) making your own brushes
4) e-mailing the artist and obtaining legitimate permission
5) buying the rights to the images.
6) using legitimately free image services (stockxchange, etc).
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Erm, can anyone teach me how to post a thead ?
I was wanting to qive one, but when i press it, it just keep disappearing.
email to disappointed_evelyn@hotmail.com  Thanks!
PS . please write down your name
Blog skin name so that I can credit
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wad about www.photobucket.com ?
can the pictures and images from there be used?
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