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Is it legal to charge for public domain photos, if you mislead the person who is charged to believe that the photos are not public domain? I guess this depends
by ptaipale 10y ago
Is it legal to charge for public domain photos, if you mislead the person who is charged to believe that the photos are not public domain?
I guess this depends on local legislation, but in most jurisdictions, I think this would be called fraud.
- cookiecaper 10y agoIt's legal to charge for public domain content. It's not legal to misrepresent your wares to the buyer (fraud, as you said). There is no duty to inform buyers that the thing you're selling is available for free somewhere else, but when you're going around and demanding royalties from people using something that's PD and claiming to have an exclusive right to licensing the image, it's a different ball game. So yeah, just selling it on their website is probably fine, but extorting money out of people who have equal right to use the image is probably not.