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jmbust

Hi.. I just want to ask to those who knows... umm... googling images and using them on your artworks could bring you to some copyright infringement cases...

What if I would change some COLORS or some OBJECTS in the image??
would that prevent me from those copyrights? would i have the ownership of my edited image???


Thanks!

Queezle

I can't speak with any authority except hearsay ;-) Here's a link that might help.

No, you cannot edit a copyrighted image and claim it as your own. You would need permission from the copyright holder to create derivative works, let alone claim ownership of them. You can, of course, extract colors from the image and use those. No one owns colors (except for trademark issues applying to very, very specific cases).

If you need free images, look around Wikimedia Commons, free stock photography sites (eg, sxc.hu), and images with the Creative Commons license on Flickr. Works over a certain age (100 years since the author's death, in the US) are in the public domain and thus free of copyright. There's a wealth of free images and artwork around the web if you look around =)
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