Author Topic: Who are these Folks - publicdomainpictures.net (Read 10491 times)

tab62 · « **on:** August 28, 2012, 13:09 »

Does anyone know or heard of this company?

http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=3461&picture=fish-oil-background

T

admin edit: changed the title to be more descriptive

luissantos84 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 28, 2012, 13:49 »

basically its a 'guy' that is using a website/api with 23k free pictures (coming from perhaps FT, DT, other) available and on a side note buyers can look at RF files from SS, FT, DT etc, pretty much he is getting comissions from referring buyers

luissantos84 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2012, 14:03 »

I believe the owner is Petr Kratochvil looking at the amount of referrals he has on DT (http://www.dreamstime.com/Littlebobek_info)

Petr Kratochvil
Pictures: 3,310
Downloads: 15,661,792

http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/browse-author.php?page=60&a=1

tab62 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2012, 21:51 »

Great! One of my best sellers that is NOT FREE is on his page! It's the fish with fish oils. What can I do?

Thanks

T

ppdd · « **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2012, 22:53 »

Do you mean the one that takes you to shutterstock for purchase? That's not free.

THP Creative · « **Reply #5 on:** August 28, 2012, 23:39 »

WOW!!!! That is a LOT of referrals!!!!

Microbius · « **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2012, 03:23 »

Quote from: ppdd on August 28, 2012, 22:53

Do you mean the one that takes you to shutterstock for purchase? That's not free.

I don't think that one does, it seems to be one of the ones being given away for free to pull in punters. Ask him to remove it, I'm sure he will

ETA, my mistake, that is the site owner's one, the ops does seem to just link to SS so no problems

ShadySue · « **Reply #7 on:** August 29, 2012, 05:29 »

Quote from: tab62 on August 28, 2012, 21:51

Great! One of my best sellers that is NOT FREE is on his page! It's the fish with fish oils. What can I do?

Probably nothing, they'll likely be a legitimate 'partner' or whatever SS calls them.
There are loads of this sort of bait and switch sites out there, which advertise 'free' and probably have a few cr*ppy free images in there, but they're really to garner referrals at the agencies.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:39 »

yesterday I have tried to see if they are really free but actually they aren´t unless it is the 0.5MP non-watermarked picture, the full sizes you need to subscribe a plan and the min is 72 EUR

tab62 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 29, 2012, 17:04 »

thank you all for the research- looks like I am safe...

T

MauMau · « **Reply #10 on:** February 12, 2014, 17:43 »

Hi, although this topic wasn't active for some time, I was hoping to find some answers here from professionals.

I am working on a smartphone jigsaw puzzle app where users can put together a bunch of images. Therefore I was looking for suitable pictures out there. This is how I found PublicDomainPictures.net which was mentioned above.

It says the pictures found on that website are public domain and "free to use", even commercial, but I couldn't found any real disclaimer or licence text, so I am not sure about that.

What I want to do is to include some pictures into my app and to provide some more pictures that can be downloaded from a server from within that app, and those images can be used only inside the app then, as a jigsaw puzzle. Maximum resolution of an image would be 1024x1024 pixels.

So am I allowed to use those pictures or not? Credits would be given to each picture, of course.

As tab62 mentioned above, there are obviously also images there that are NOT "public domain". Or may I use them, as long as I do not require high resolution copies from them? That's quite confusing for non-photographers... :-(

Thanks for helping
Mike

elvinstar · « **Reply #11 on:** February 12, 2014, 19:34 »

If you are looking for photos that you can use in your app without paying and only providing a credit, you may want to check out www.sxc.hu. It might be just the thing for you.

Quote from: MauMau on February 12, 2014, 17:43

Hi, although this topic wasn't active for some time, I was hoping to find some answers here from professionals.

I am working on a smartphone jigsaw puzzle app where users can put together a bunch of images. Therefore I was looking for suitable pictures out there. This is how I found PublicDomainPictures.net which was mentioned above.

It says the pictures found on that website are public domain and "free to use", even commercial, but I couldn't found any real disclaimer or licence text, so I am not sure about that.

What I want to do is to include some pictures into my app and to provide some more pictures that can be downloaded from a server from within that app, and those images can be used only inside the app then, as a jigsaw puzzle. Maximum resolution of an image would be 1024x1024 pixels.

So am I allowed to use those pictures or not? Credits would be given to each picture, of course.

As tab62 mentioned above, there are obviously also images there that are NOT "public domain". Or may I use them, as long as I do not require high resolution copies from them? That's quite confusing for non-photographers... :-(

Thanks for helping
Mike