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Originally Posted by beamie
It is not copyright infringement if the photo isn't copyrighted from the photo taker. Publish or perrish....this is why sometimes you see a silouette of the selling company in the photo, then you really can't copy it.
Many times you see someone selling a new fishing reel NIB but use the stock photo from the online catalog with all the reel description
right off the manufacturers sight. Same same.
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Both scenarios are copyright infringement. You could even Photoshop an image and it's STILL copyright infringement, "derivative use" is also unacceptable.
Copyright is implicit. You don't need watermarks or to have "Copyright" stated at the bottom of the page.
I only watermark SWE images these days to make it easier to stop people from using them. When I contact the thief and the image they are using has our watermarks it comes down promptly. When they weren't watermarked they often give me the "oh, our web guy isn't in today, we'll get to it as soon as we can".
You'd be surprised how broad copyright protection really is.