Copyrighted Free Images

I need free images

[kashifkb]

Hi everyone,

I need some "copyrighted free images" in the category of medical, computer, maps etc.

Can anyone help me please in guiding that is there any site, resources where I can get the free images for that purpose, which are not copyrighted and which can be used for the Adsense sites.

Any help in this regard will be very much appreciated.

Thanks

[jetteroheller]

I have my digital camera always with me and make all the photos for my online magazines my self.

So I have unique photos without any copyright problems.

[Knappster]

Unless you use photos from the public domain, or that you've taken or commissioned yourself, you'll have to deal with copyright.

Google "royalty free stock images" (no quotes). Some of the top search results will allow commercial use of their photos at no cost, or for a nominal fee.

Be sure to check the TOS of the sites, and the submitter's own requirements (at minimum a thank-you email is expected). For user-submitted photos, be confident that the submitter owns the copyright before using.

[max1224]

What about linking to copyrighted images?

[incrediBILL]

OK, there are lots of "ROYALTY FREE" low cost copyrighted images, some you can take all you want for a low fee for a month or a weeks access to the site, and some flat out FREE copyrighted images, you just need to start Googling as there's a ton out there.

[mzanzig]

max,

What about linking to copyrighted images?

Very very problematic - if you HOTLINK the images. (A plain link might be okay-ish, however linking directly to the image file can also be questionable.)

Main reason: you are presenting the images out of context. The main reason for the copyright owner to present his image on his website may be that he wants users to visit his website. He probably does not want to see his content hotlinked on another site with Adsense all around it, paying the thief.

Again, this turns out to be one of the core questions to be answered in upcoming legal battles over copyright. Image thieves usually claim that the copyright owner could prevent hotlinking by using .htaccess rules. This, however, would be an "opt-out" model, whereas copyright is seen today as an "opt-in" model, i.e. you have to ask the copyright owner for permission to commercially use the work.

This is regardless of the fact that a work has been published already (be it in print or on a website). Even if you have access to it, this does not imply that you are allowed to re-publish it. You simply have to ask for permission. Depending on the content owner, a lawsuit can be quite ugly. Just think of stealing from Corbis. You better don't do that, IMO.

[whitenoise]

Have you tried www.sxc.hu? They have thousands or images for pratically everything you can imagine, a large majority of images have no usage/copyright restrictions.

[photo200]

cmon guys.
Everyone knows there are 2 big players:
istockphoto and dreamstime.

Buy there. Use for whatever you like.
But read TOS for shure.
You will not own a copyrights but You will
have those images royalty free.
Price is nothing.

[21_blue]

You can buy CD packs with thousands or hundreds of thousands of royalty-free photos. Do a search at Amazon.com to find a selection that contains the type of photos you want.

[ncw164x]

Quite a large list of Stock and Royalty-Free Images here

[photosecrets.com...]

[allthewhile]

I would go to flickr and look through their huge collection of creative commons liscenced photos.

[flickr.com...]

Just make sure you read through the different licsense rules. They're free and you can pretty much do whatever you want with them.

-jayson

[allthewhile]

[flickr.com...]

[flickr.com...]

etc etc etc