Legal

  • I have to put my foot down here. I realize I’m lucky enough to attract a higher ratio of smart people among my customers than most so I apologize to you in advance, of course, but I have to assume some entitlist nuts will wander in. I’m sure you understand.

    I own my images. They are not public domain. If you capture and use them, even if you don’t sell them, you are taking food out of my baby’s mouth and I will take appropriate legal action. We can’t live on “exposure”. For more commentary on that, let’s watch this clip of Harlan Ellison that ironically appears to have been stolen.

    FYI, no court anywhere has ever considered images made in the last 75 years and found on the internet public domain. Because they aren’t. Wishing they were doesn’t make it so. Pretending to be ignorant of the law doesn’t make it so. Putting it on a T-shirt you plan to wear at school doesn’t count as “scholastic fair-use commentary”.

    If you didn’t create it you can only look at it or buy it. Period.

  • If you need fair use access for commentary, or whatever, you may wish to use the easy image generator at Fine Art America to post images that look like this:

    Art Prints

    It’s in the right sidebar and looks like this:

    Image generator

  • Or, you can click “share” above images in my Flickr to post images that look like this.

    Hydrogen #Paint50 No. 1

  • On another note, yes, I’m totally legally using Wikipedia for some descriptions for efficiency and SEO reasons under their GNU Free Documentation license. and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, out of consideration for the original contributors, although Wikipedia itself considers its crowd-sourced text public domain.