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ok then, with Xmas coming up and all this talk lately about copyright and what is wrong and right about using certain images, Where can us newbies etc get images that are royalty free and wont get us into hot water, for example i was going to make a load of baby grows etc today ready for Xmas but im being put off by what exactly i can and can not use, if i wanted a image of father Christmas, a Xmas tree a elf etc where is some places you old timers would use to get them? we haven't all got designers etc working for us 24/7

just another thread for a discussion!

do people on here use these type of companies? any experience with this one anyone?
https://www.graphicsfactory.com/cgi-bin ... ?ID=381405

I think recent posts have made a few think about this.

I don't think anybody has copyright on Santa, or elves - that would be like having a copyright on a specific Colour.. oh, hang on - I think some colours are restricted..

As for you being a 'Newbie' - you surprise me, I thought you were an old hand at this.

ok its late and im replying to myself but hay there we are then!

found this also http://openclipart.org/homepage so i guess ive answered my questions all on my own,, lol

i still think im a newbie as ive been doing this for under 2 years, mainly used templates and a lot of text on t-shirts but starting to think of new ideas but just need the design to go along side of them,

Images of Santa etc would still have a copyright on them. You could draw your own Santa, but not use somebody else's without permission.

You could also try [url="http://www.clker.com/]clker[/url] which will convert large uploads to vector

COPYRIGHT IS A MINEFIELD SIMPLE AS
The easiest way round it is to design your own easier said than done i know .
Theres so much to consider when looking at copyright firstly is the image subject copyright in the case of santa id say certainly not but then you have to consider who owns the image you are about to use. consider this senario I draw a picture of santa you see that picture and think hmm thats nice ill draw a pic of santa and use that .... that as far as im aware is perfectly ok
So ok i draw a picture of santa and you see and copy and paste that image onto your computer and make a tshirt , well you cant do that thats my drawing i own the copyright to that drawing .
its such a grey area its untrue take koolart for example these are caricatures drawn by their own artists now they have John deere tractors in their collection the owner of koolart will insist you can legally use this i would suggest that thats true to a point. In my opinion you can legally use a caricature of a john deere tractor as long as you just call it a tractor the second you advertise it as a john deere tractor in theory you are in breach of copyright.
Celebraties are another grey area apparantly you can quite happily take a photo of justin beiber and then use this on a mug i would think you can not advertise it as a justin beiber mug because the name is a trademark so you would be in breach but you can use your own picture and advertise it as a really annoying jumped up little shit mug or a popstar mug if you wanna be more pc

you will see web sites advertising as free to use images i strongly suggest you read the small print these tend to be free to use for personal use and not financial gain.

If you can create your own images its best to do this

Hi Purpledragon
after a bit of research last night for about $50 per yer Graphics Factory allow you to use any of there designs for commercial gain, also red that openclipart is also open for any use, both these sights clearly say that the images can be used for anything...
ive either missed something or ive found Millons of images i can use for t-shirts.....

Dave

Hi Dave
yes theres many places where you can pay for images either on a membership or per picture my post was just a geralisation on copyright and free images but yes obviously there are licensed images
Brett