• Riskable@programming.dev
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    23 hours ago

    To be fair, when it comes to stock photos the creatives already got paid. You’re just violating the copyright of a big corporation at that point (if you distribute the images… If you never distribute the images then you’ve committed no crime).

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      23 hours ago

      No. As someone who has uploaded my own images in hopes to sell them from a stock website. You do not get paid until someone purchases your pictures to use.

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        22 hours ago

        Depends on how you sell them, but yes. Don’t assume that you aren’t hurting an individual when you steal IP.