I'm guilty of googleing images for backgrounds for my sprite webcomic for years, including the sprites. But I've recently started to use resources and stock images offered from DeviantArt so I've learned my lesson.
My new image manips were all done with DA stock images. It's a wonderful resource. EVERYONE USE DA!
We're really anal about this at work and it's really rubbed off, though I've disliked the idea of taking images from Google for years (and in the interest of full disclosure: I did do this, once upon a time, back before I was really appraised of copyright and intellectual copyright and all the myriad of issues you can run into if you get caught using images taken from somewhere without permission. Then I stopped. Fast).
It's not the same but along the same lines: We keep telling students that they can't just grab an image from google to use it in their lab reports; again and again and again; especially not without giving credit to the original maker/website. But it does not seem to sink in with everyone ;_;
Oh, that's similar enough! We have that issue a lot at work, actually, since people seem to either not know or not care about pesky copyright laws. We try to school them, though.
Sometimes you can get away with these things - generally if the image isn't going to be widely distributed and credit is given - but it's usually safer to assume you can't and to tell everyone no, absolutely not.
gjfdijds they're sort of a professional? Like they've been through art school and are looking for good illustration jobs and should (by all rights) know this kind of stuff, but. You know. Still posted a pic online using an image ganked from Google?
I imagine their argument would be that it's a personal piece, but my response then is IDGAF how personal it is, you posted it online where millions of people have access to it. Including future employers. You want to use Google? Fine. But don't be irrevocably stupid about it and post that stuff online. Anywhere.
Ew, yeah. What my teachers always told me was that if it was a potential portfolio piece (aka, anything you ever made), Google Images was out of the question. :| Apparently this person missed that lesson...
Same! At least from my design professors. Several of my fine art professors tried to convince the rest of us that "appropriating" images from Google was a-okay. I side-eyed all of them (and then got into several arguments over it). Copyright law. It is a thing. Please learn about it.
This person though...I have never seen them tap Google before, I don't think. (Though I have seen many, many, MANY other artists do this, most of them on DA. I then fight with myself over whether or not to point out to them that that's not okay, since some of those artists tend to react rather viciously to any kind of crit at all.) I am still debating whether or not I should even say anything to them, because I know it's a very personal piece for them.
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My new image manips were all done with DA stock images. It's a wonderful resource. EVERYONE USE DA!
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We're really anal about this at work and it's really rubbed off, though I've disliked the idea of taking images from Google for years (and in the interest of full disclosure: I did do this, once upon a time, back before I was really appraised of copyright and intellectual copyright and all the myriad of issues you can run into if you get caught using images taken from somewhere without permission. Then I stopped. Fast).
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Sometimes you can get away with these things - generally if the image isn't going to be widely distributed and credit is given - but it's usually safer to assume you can't and to tell everyone no, absolutely not.
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I imagine their argument would be that it's a personal piece, but my response then is IDGAF how personal it is, you posted it online where millions of people have access to it. Including future employers. You want to use Google? Fine. But don't be irrevocably stupid about it and post that stuff online. Anywhere.
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This person though...I have never seen them tap Google before, I don't think. (Though I have seen many, many, MANY other artists do this, most of them on DA. I then fight with myself over whether or not to point out to them that that's not okay, since some of those artists tend to react rather viciously to any kind of crit at all.) I am still debating whether or not I should even say anything to them, because I know it's a very personal piece for them.
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So I hear Bob Dylan recently did an art show where it turned out he'd just painted uncredited imitations of other people's photographs. Your thoughts?
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