Wise advice from Helen on an old,
but very much still valid issue…
Chris The Story Reading Ape posted a link the other day that got me thinking. It was about a blogger – a cautionary tale, really. She had been using images from the internet to illustrate her blog posts, but had been unaware that she didn’t have permission to use those images. When a photographer called her out for using one of his images without permission, she found herself liable for court costs and a usage fee, money she didn’t have to spend.
Quite a few years ago, I worked in advertising, and one of my roles was as media buyer for a large agency. That meant I had to find images for creative teams and then, if they wanted to use them in an ad, I had to negotiate a usage fee for the image based on who was using it, where it would be seen, for how long, at…
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Thanks, Chris. Shared widely 🙂
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Thanks Chris, much appreciated! And I hope you don’t mind me linking to you as well 🙂 xx
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Not in the least Helen, now anyone who missed mine will have two posts for the cost of one 👍😃😄
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