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Originally Posted by Relentless
When buying stock images make sure you are getting them from a reputable stock site. If the site you buy from is cheap and located in the third world, when you get sued you are the one responsible not them... and good luck suing them to recover your losses.
Istockphoto isn't the cheapest but they actually own the rights to what they sell.  |
Thanks for your input, dang this is new for me.
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Originally Posted by DBS.US
I would use the manufactures website photos.  |
thats the last idea, as its much easier to scrape from other site instead of going to each manufacturer site then search and download images for each and every model.
gonna check if there is some kind of images search api out there.
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Using anyone else's images on your website is a breach of copyright unless:
1. The images being used are licensed for such usage under a creative commons or other such licence (be aware many such license prohibit commercial usage)
2. You have explicit permission from the owner of the image to use them.
3. You are covered by fair use (e.g.: a news story about a website could display an image of that website and be covered by fair use)
4. You are given permission by an affiliate program which has licensed the use of images for affiliate use.
Unless you have permission or are covered by fair use then using someone else's images on your site is a breach of copyright.
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I really appreciate your input , thanks for your time.
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Originally Posted by **********
General rule: If you don't own the images or the rights to use those images, you can't display them. Shoot your own, or buy what you need from istockphoto or similar services. It costs very little and will save you a fortune in legal fees later on.
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The other site i am talking about is getting those images from manufaturer and watermarking them with their domain .
i was under impression that i could use theirs as they are also just scraping from manufacturer site.
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Originally Posted by DVTimes
thats your best bet.
but do not risk using other peoples pics.
if you do use other peoples pics, alter them as much as you can so they do not look the same.
but somone is bound to play silly devil and to save you a lot of grief take your own pics where you can.
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thanks for your input.
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Originally Posted by stoka
are you insane, he can't buy tech product images from stockphoto sites... because there are none
no stockphoto site carries photos that contain even a tiny logo... unless it's editorial photography which is completely different thing
just go with photos from manufacturers' sites
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i found few photos on some stock site, i know i wont find all , manufacturers site is the best option for me i guess.
thanks.
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Originally Posted by Relentless
I can't imagine many people buy a wireless router based on how it looks. Most likely people would be more interested in the back end of it, how many ports it has, signal lights and that sort of thing. You want to have a site with 1000s of products but the main information about them is likely the same or very similar. Get an illustrator to make you an image set of the various port configurations and use them for each item to show information that matters to people, rather than showing meaningless photos of the front of a router.
Getting a full set of nicely made illustrations showing each possible hardware configuration will likely cost you a few hundred bucks and take a few days, and be much easier than collecting 1000s of pictures nobody really wants to see anyway. The manufacturers' manuals are filled with illustrations in most cases rather than pictures because the schematics matter more than the visuals...
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its just no the photo site , theres gonna be more technical information , photo is just for giving the look of the hardware .
but i see what you mean there,
this is really helpful, thanks