megan :
I am currently designing a website about a place of interest. I already have the majority of the photos I need for it that I took whilst I was travelling there, but am a couple missing. Is it legal to use a photo from another website if you provide a reference for it and a link of where I took the photo from, or is this classed as copyright enfringement?
I don’t need any pictures of people, it is more scenery pictures and hotel pictures.
Any advice would be a great help.
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It is perfectly legal. As long as you are not making visitors pay to view your images. People placed those images on the search engines for others to view and use.
yes it’s legal when you copy the picture and provide the link or reference of that picture..copyright enfringement is for people who take a document or a picture and never write the reference or you can say they are the one who made it.
Yes, if it is not a copyrighted picture. It’s also better to email the author or web developer of the site and get a permission from them.
You can not legally use a photograph unless you have permission from the photographer. Simply giving a link to the photo does not make it ok to steal the photo.
Having said that, many photographers will sell their images at low cost as stock photos. You can probably find an image you need at the sites listed on this page:
Good Luck with your site!