Long before WWW this problem was addressed with licensed stock images. It's a commercial project, not significantly transformative, and wouldn't be worth argui

Long before WWW this problem was addressed with licensed stock images. It's a commercial project, not significantly transformative, and wouldn't be worth arguing fair use over. The practice of downloading a random image from the web and modifying it is a good way to learn, but not a good way to work professionally. Every design firm has a subscription to something like Getty Images these days. I suspect this was done in-house. Nobody should think to do something like this on a major production. It's just asking for trouble. (not that the major studios don't have their own snafus and that this kind of a thing is unheard of, but it mostly happens with things like daily news where people are trying to push things out as fast as they can)