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Legal Stock Sites - Photo resources@Supernatural-art @All-Artists @HighQualityArt @Digital-Art-Club @PsychoArtistUnited Hello Hope you are all having a great day. It came to my attention some problems about what sites are legal stock providers and which are straight out thieves. I have made a very extensive research to make sure I'm not making a mistake by declining images with not confirmed sources. Please read very carefully, I will not battle about this later. All this applies to my groups.Sketchy sites with no clear sources statements are not even considered.First please read the basics of © Copyrights terms. -Copyright laws are powerful tools that protect art and artists and can prevent the misuse of set artworks. More about Copyrights ©-Fan art as love is different than fan art for sale. More about fan art ©Using other peoples art is called art theft and is despicable when making money out of it too.Your premium content is illegal, that post is illegal.FAQS:Click on the titles for full journals!:faq157: Permissions: We start with the idea that pretty much everything you use in a creative work that doesn’t come originally from you and that comes from someone else must be used with the permission of the original owner. Stock, even free stock, comes with a license. The license is a real contract.Stealing: Under the law, taking or using someone else’s creative expression is typically “Copyright Infringement,” which is, truthfully, a lot more complicated than just saying something was “stolen.” Copyright infringement is unlawful.:faq306: You must obtain written permission from the proper and legal owner of any work which you wish to use, credit alone does not replace this requirement. Failure to obtain proper permission for the use of works protected under copyright can leave your DeviantArt submission vulnerable to being removed if we receive a claim of infringement against it. Explicit permission is not required when you choose to use valid stock resources. Please check your sources carefully to ensure that they are valid stock and please be certain to obey all rules, terms and conditions which may be attached to that resource. Please note that images found on search engines such as Google are likely not stock images unless explicitly stated otherwise.-->HOW TO SPOT A POSSIBLY STOLEN PHOTOHELPFUL JOURNALS:NOT LEGITIMATE STOCKS AND HOW TO REPORT THEM by @Wesley-Souza DEVIANTART USERS SHARING STOCKS WE DO NOT ACCEPT by @Wesley-Souza This list is updated every month, a few sites we recommend that we know are legal sites and some that are clearly illegal. If you know someone reposting things that dont belong to them, report them! Help us have a clear path for our imaginations to flow!And if you have a legal site we haven´t listed, feel free to leave it in the comments for us to check!Most important issue: Google Is not a stock site, is a search engine that shows you images from all the websites online.This means, You are taking other artists Photography to use as your own.Which is a copyright infringement and illegal.SITES WE RECOMMEND:Unplash.com Dreamstime.com stock.adobe.com neo-stock.com Stockvault Sxc.hu (only with the written permission of the owner) Renderosity123rf.com fotolia.com Changed to Adobe stocks.freeimages.com (affiliate to istockphoto) pixabay.com (I don´t fully trust this site, so I always do a google image search and often find the right owners then) They are now reposting photos from Unsplashfreestock.ca Shutterstock.com istockphoto.com photobash.orgflickr (Flickr has a search engine like Google (not a valid source), that has all types of images in one place for you to find, BUT according to all sites i read, you can use the advanced search on the site to look up relevant Creative Commons-licensed photos and artwork. Be careful when using CC-licensed images to ensure that you follow the terms of the license completely.)MorgueFile DepositphotosCGTextures.comUnplash.commediamilitia.comstocksnap.io creativemarket.com freepik.com (is too good to be true for me, be careful when using, make sure to do a image reverse search)STOCKS WE DO NOT ACCEPT:Public domain doesnt always mean free to use and we don´t agree with any site who re-shares photos of other websites as Public domain just because they are on the internet. I understand what Public domain means, it doesn´t mean I approve it in My groups.What the other groups policy is, I DON'T CARE nor will change anything here. So if you don't like it, feel free to leave the groups listed above.Celebrities photosAre not stocks. I know they are public domain most of the time, but we will not accept them.PNG sitesAre the biggest thieves among us, they are all the same most likely managed by the same people (I found most are created in asia or india) I use the site whois.net to track owners and report them to their Hosting sites.I find my own stocks there more often than not, we will not be accepting any of those sites, please take a look a our list gathered by several deviants around DA for guide if you are unsure. Most sites offering stocks like this, are illegal sources, the better the stock looks, the more likely is its cropped from another art or stolen form other stockers like me.Screenshotsof other peoples photos that are not stocks.of games are not stocks.They are not there to be used by us as we wish, its still someone else´s Artwork.3D showrooms of productsVR or Virtual photos made with 3D showrooms (cars, phones, places) are not stocks. They are literally a product museum.3D Game programsUnless they specify in the terms of use, these are not stocks and can not be taking out of the game or website as you wish.Nor can they be used to make a 3D mash up or manipulation as your own, unless you have the license to do so (usually environments platforms/renders allow them to be used outside the site). Game characters screenshoted from games are Not stocks.Source film maker doesn't seem to be for art, just animations according to their terms https://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/faq/PhotobucketPhoenixrisingstockGfxspot and the similar onesGoogleFacebookTumblrTaringamrg.bzbrushlovers.comimageshack.commodel-kartei.de. clipart-library.com publicdomainpictures.netsrv1.jpg.co.ilvipad.frblogspot.comModel Mayhemwikimedia.orgshop.scrapbookgraphics.comRenders of any type or siteAny wallpapers site.rgbstock.compngall.comLenagold.ruGettyimagespngmart.compngimg.comkindpng.com pluspng.comoscraps. comkisspng.comstickpng.compngtree.compngkey.comcasimages.com doublemesh.com imageafter.compublic domain recopilators. webdesignerlab.comSnipstock (they admit they use public domain images and they dont credit)Visualhunt.com (It is a compilation of other sites like Pixabay and Unsplash without crediting any owner of the photos.) designe-r.in.ua (recopilates DA stocks) pixelstains.net AmonStock deviantart (crops pixabay stocks.)roblox.com picsart.com twenty20.com piqsels.com pngguru.com archive.org ,The Art Theft DiscussionJuly 7, 2015Art Theft

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