LaDarc Arts dan repost
PSA- I haven't noticed this as a widespread problem, but I have noticed it in small pockets on here- image licensing.
If you're looking to make merch, or just sell images in any way, you either need to be the original creator, paid the original creator, or you need to be sourcing properly licensed images.
You can't just save random pretty pictures on the internet and put them on shirts and mugs and call them your own design. You are, legally, stealing someone else's intellectual property. Someone else went out of their way to take that picture, create that graphic, do a painting, etc. You have no right to use it. It does not belong to you.
There are plenty of sources online to harvest commercially licensed graphics and images from. Some are free, and they're not the best, and some are paid but well worth it if you're going to do this commercially.
Wikimedia commons and unsplash are, imo, the best for free images.
Envato elements is my favorite paid service for both images and graphics.
And images over 100 years old are free game!
Please do not steal the intellectual property of other artists. Just follow licensing procedures. It could even save you from getting sued.
That is all.
If you're looking to make merch, or just sell images in any way, you either need to be the original creator, paid the original creator, or you need to be sourcing properly licensed images.
You can't just save random pretty pictures on the internet and put them on shirts and mugs and call them your own design. You are, legally, stealing someone else's intellectual property. Someone else went out of their way to take that picture, create that graphic, do a painting, etc. You have no right to use it. It does not belong to you.
There are plenty of sources online to harvest commercially licensed graphics and images from. Some are free, and they're not the best, and some are paid but well worth it if you're going to do this commercially.
Wikimedia commons and unsplash are, imo, the best for free images.
Envato elements is my favorite paid service for both images and graphics.
And images over 100 years old are free game!
Please do not steal the intellectual property of other artists. Just follow licensing procedures. It could even save you from getting sued.
That is all.