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There's one simple trick: pay the copyright holder whose work you are exploiting. Once you have a license you have nothing to worry about. If you don't do that

There's one simple trick: pay the copyright holder whose work you are exploiting. Once you have a license you have nothing to worry about. If you don't do that, then any recognizable* use of someone else's image is a copyright violation. *There are semantic games like "what if I shrink the image to a 1x1 pixel and use that in another image, is that illegal, HUH, IS IT?" But I don't think that's what you care about.

coldpie 13y ago
> If you don't do that, then any recognizable* use of someone else's image is a copyright violation. Er, no. Fair use is actually fairly broad.
- xsmasher 13y ago
  > Er, no. Fair use is actually fairly broad. You are right, I didn't take fair use into account, and Fair Use does take "Transformative nature" into account. Fair Use does not help the parent poster "make sure [they] don't get sued" though. Fair Use is a defense after you get to court. I should have said "If you don't do that, then any recognizable use of someone else's image can result in a lawsuit."