Copyright image issue

JagonApps

Hi
I am looking for some images I can use and perhaps edit for my game.
Before this I have limited myself to images/sound etc. which are: free to use, modify, share, even commercially.

Particularly on the 'commercial' aspect of this, do I need to be so picky and does commercial refer to just selling the image on its own??? Could I use it if I was making a free app?????

Cheers

SlickZero

Commercial means you will be using it in a professional manner, such as mass distribution in a product, or anything that benefits you in some way as a company or individual, and it doesn't matter if you make a profit or not. So, It won't make a difference if your game/app is free or if it's paid. If you don't own the image, or have permission/license to use it, it would be illegal, even if you altered the image it in some way.

JagonApps

Thanks SlickZero, I feared so :P

jackrbrown

Digital photography protection in the online world is a tough task to achieve the best and time tested way of protecting your images is by using a visible watermark. i would like to share you about watermark software - Mass Watermark ( www.masswatermark.com )

Dues

Only problem with watermarking is that it extremely easy to recreate a picture with a graphics program. It works for protecting from "the average person" but if someone want to steal your art, they will do it anyway..

Socks

Only problem with watermarking is that it extremely easy to recreate a picture with a graphics program. It works for protecting from "the average person" but if someone want to steal your art, they will do it anyway..

Agreed, with kind of watermarking you often see here on this forum it would be pretty straightforward to either remove the watermarking or simply recreate it (like you say).