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euripides said:.
COPYRIGHT FREE material is available from various sources on the internet, such as FlickR.com and sxc.hu and various other royalty-free photography distributors. Sometimes the contributors to these resources apply restrictions, so again check the conditions on the specific image you wish to use.
Actually i asked LLewellyn this question if I need to gain permission for the free restriction stock i used in my tarot deck, and they told me that even If its free restriction it is also best to get a written permission from the one that took the shot, just in case they change their terms of use later..
also if you use your own photo's for references, there are a few that you need to gain permission even if they are your own photo's, like famous buildings, trademarks, famous pets and people, photo's you shot in a museum and photo's shot at a graveyard, graves- statues, you need to gain permission to use those photo's. Photo's that are shot in a public domein can be used without any problem.
I was surprised to hear that when you shoot graves- statues or cemetary's and use that in something that you need to get permission for that, i always tought that cemetary's were a public domein. Also museum foto's you shoot your self , that you need permission of the museum to use them. To me it sounds silly because you pay to enter it, you shoot photo's (if you may take photo's otherwise you don't shoot them at all ) , then the copyright of the photo is automaticly yours and still you need to gain permission from the museum if you manipulate it and sell the picture makes me wonder if that rule only excist when it is about artist who still are alive or not long death, and that way want to protect their work, but what about the old masters then? Seems sometimes that getting permission from the one who shot the photo isn't enough to stay out of troubles, in these cases
Another thing i was wondering about, The copyright rules are they the same over the whole world or does every continent has its own whit the base and slighty other changes in it?