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Just need to ask these questions again because I cannot find the thread I started with these ones, and their answers on there.
Just needing confirmation that flicker.com is the right website to get free images, videos to download onto my social media sites? Are there any other ones that are just as good? I know there was mention of one with 'pix' in the title.
How do check that these images are actually free on these sites? Want to ensure that I don't get caught if I download an image. Any advise? Sorry for repeating these questions. The thread just disappeared..??
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Flikr CREATIVE COMMONS will have free-to-use photos - but only monetarily. You still have to display the relative creative commons license with the photo, acknowledge the photographer's name, and possibly link back to the original photographer
Not quite sure what you mean by the word 'monetarily?'. That you have to display the necessary license with the photo(do you need to pay for this? Every time? Or would one license allow full access to the photos on this website, and other websites too?).
And thanks to Liz for that knowledge about retaining threads..
But I'm not sure how you could use it as an image for your Facebook - I don't think you can. Because the image would show up on every comment you make and you can't show the license on every comment you make. Therefore you would be using it illegally.
I think you ned to use a photo of yourself.
Just be aware that you would be open to being sued if you did that - the first public comment you made, by accident or design, the person who took the image could sue you.
As I've said before, why not just have a photo you've taken yourself of something else? Your teddy bear, a view, a horse, something you are interested in...
You haven't answered- is this a personal page or an author page?
Theft of copyright is a very serious matter and does HUGE harm to all creative people.
Downloaded a book about tumblr. It was suggested that downloading images from off reddit would be a good way of gaining interest in my site. Are these images free? That you can download them without fear of copyright infringements?
And just how do you route images from off an IFTTT account from the sub reddit to your tumblr site?
But the problem with free-for-use photos, if the original photographer is not credited or referred to, how do you know they really are free to use?
And what is more, there have been instances of people making photos creative commons and then changing the conditions, getting in contact with users and demanding money. The user has NO WAY to prove that when they used the photo it was under a CC license.
As an additional thought. If I reblogged other tumblrs blog posts images, would that be acceptable and free of charge? So that I can have as many images as I need without the necessity of paying for them or, just as important for me, not have to do the technical fiddly bits connected with downloading images(???)?
I need images that might reflect the type of things that my potential followers would find approvable. So experimenting with these images to find out what works, and what doesn't, is the key. Someone suggested that to gain followers on tumblr you should follow 200 blogs a day, and add some comments to some of them, and when the limit is reached, delete these and add more.. sounds sensible? Or at least, worth trying?
You are an individual do things the way you want to, produce and present your own images...be brave.
Go with your heart, Lydia!!
You are most definitely over thinking all this and creating so much difficulty and so many questions and paths that you are getting lost. Think about words and story, not strangers.
I'm going to ask a few questions and make an observation or two, after which I aim to make like a BBC Dragon and declare myself "Out" of this and, possibly, any forum posts from you.
Q1: Do you want/intend to be a writer or a blogger? Not that being one excludes being the other but it appears to me that you are focusing solely on building a social media following.
Q2: What type of images are you referring to and why can you not take you own versions of these, thus avoiding any of the potential difficulties that seem to be your main concern?
Q3: Why do you feel that a writers' forum is best placed to answer questions regarding image copyright issues?
Q4: Similarly, is a writers' forum the best place to seek advice on building social media traffic to your site?
Observation: My own experience of social media, Twitter especially, is that when starting from zero followers, the way to grow them (if that is your intent) is to engage with people who share similar views to your own. Also, to interact with some who do not subscribe to your own views - that way you can see a bigger picture of issues etc and learn new things too.
Observation: Make you web presence as clear and easy to navigate and view as possible. Avoid typos and bad design as these will make visitors go elsewhere. Add interesting articles and informative postings to your social media. Do not simply retweet and repost those from others, this will not make people keen to follow you - why should they if you only retweet post from other folk, they might as well just follow the original poster in the first place.
Best regards
Gavin