So, you were surfing the web and found the coolest image you’ve ever seen. You decide it’s perfect for your web site and you either pop it on yourself or hand it to a web designer and ask him or her to put it on your site. Then you decide you want to go rob a bank because they have all kinds of cool money there.
What does one have to do with the other, you ask? “Robbing a bank is against the law!” Well, so is using a copyrighted image without permission or payment. You won’t go to the “big house” for breaking the copyright law but you will face huge fines that could cripple your business. Think I’m wrong or believe you will never get caught? The same ability to search Google for images and finding one you want to use for your site has the same power to have the owner of the image find you. There is no hiding and the belief that you can’t be touched will give you nightmares once you are found.
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