I did a post about eight years ago talking about finding original pictures for your blog. I wanted to reiterate that today because I’ve come across more and more blogs that have funny, but not always approved by the photographer, pictures.
You see, there’s this little thing called copyright law out
there, and it means that you usually require permission to use someone else’s
photograph. Yes, there are places like
Shutterstock that provide pictures to use free of royalties, but most people want
to be paid for their work. And failure
to do that, or get permission in advance(preferably in writing), means you can
pay a lot more later.
Everyone has an iPhone(or some equivalent). Use it to take pictures and then figure out
which pics would be good to use for your most recent blog post. Yes, it’s more work than it’d be to search
“toothless rednecks with pythons” on the internet, but it’s less work than
making more money if the photo’s owner finds you out and demands you pay him.
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