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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: mun on June 24, 2012, 08:28
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Hi
If I purchase a stock photo and embed it in my design, then would I be committing plagiarism? Purchasing a stock photo only grants me a license to use, which is more in the copyright side of things. How about plagiarism though?
Thanks
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If you will sell the design as your own copyright work then yes.
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Short answer to your original question: no. Longer answer: you're creating a derivative work. Just don't claim authorship of all the components of your work. I would liken it to quoting other people's work in an article or book. Acknowledge your sources and you're fine; claim them as your own words or the results of your own research rather than theirs and you're plagiarizing.
I'm neither a lawyer nor a legal scholar. The way I think it works is that you can claim copyright to the derived work, which is your creation from the copyright-protected work of others. A song that uses a sample from another song deserves protection, and so does your derived work. It still depends on honoring the copyrights of its components.
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If I purchase a stock photo and embed it in my design, then would I be committing plagiarism?
Ummmm, licensing a stock photo to put into a design is the entire point of licensing stock.
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^^ what he said, just don't claim to have taken the photo, and if you want to be ultra nice credit the photographer, but most licenses won't require it.