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| quote: | Originally posted by woscar
Most artists that post their work on the web do so under a Creative Commons license. |
Thanks for telling me what to look for. I did some research and it seems as though there are many different kinds of creative commons licenses, only some of which allow for creation and display of derivative works for commercial purposes, and all of them ask for some kind of attribution to the original creator.
Obviously if it's been posted on other sites attributing the original creator becomes very difficult, and determining the specific license type even harder, but does that really make it legal to just ignore the license? I doubt it.
Either way it happens all the time in flyer design and nobody seems to get in trouble for it, probably because there just isn't enough money in trying to sue some local party promotion crew for illegal use of an image. I'm sure if Coke tried to use that photo in a worldwide advertising campaign it would be a different story.
Sick flyer either way.
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