Something every designer must know is copyright, which is basically the designer's right to control how a design is used. Because it is required on my current project (this very blog) I have posted an explanation focusing on Image Copyright.
Legally, the person who made the image (e.g. photograph or drawing), they own the copyright to that image. The copyright allows them to be paid for their time in creating the image. Any reproduction of the image done without permission would be a breach of copyright.
However, there are exceptions to the copyright, for example if they are an employee of the company the images are created for, or an employee instructed to create the images. In that case, the company owns the copyright. Alternatively, the person who created the image will not have copyright is there this an agreement that assigns the copyright to someone else. To claim copyright, you have to register your image in order to have prove of your ownship if someone else claims the image as their own.
- If you wish to use the work of others, you first need to directly contact and gain permission from the copyright owners before you use their work. If they grant consent, you may use their image. If they don't, under no circumstances should you use the image anyway.
- Do not use images from google image: there is a chance that an image came from a website that is different from the website you took it from.
- There a several websites full of stock images you can use freely. Here are a couple of example links:
http://freestocktextures.com/
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