Potential Legal Implications P6

There are many different possible types of legislation when taking and using graphic images. The main one is the copyright act. This is where someone creates and image and copyrights it so that no one can use it without being allowed to by the creator. The copyright act is shown below.

Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other, related rights. It is an intellectual property form (like the patent, the trademark, and the trade secret) applicable to any expressible form of an idea or information that is substantive and discrete.

This was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

You would have to identify ownership of an image as well. Sometimes an image has a signature on it or the copyright symbol. Sometimes there may not be anything on an image, but this usually means it belongs to the website. You must find out if you intend to use the image.

If you wish to use copyrighted material then you must get in touch with the person that copyrighted the image and get permission from them. If you are going to make money from the website or the image then the copyrighter needs a cut of the profits.

You can get hold of many free images from the internet and there are many different websites you can use.