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lostintimeline:
hi i ve been composing some music lately and i ve bee posting it in youtube and tik tok
i used two wallapers from my pc as a background to my music .when i played somewhere over the rainbow in the piano and i used  a movie poster of wizard of ozz it was shadowbaned in tik tok.they use AI and the AI saw it as a copyright thing
i found this page free images.com and if offers high quality images as roylalty free.some people take these images cause these are public domain and sell it in stock sites
i dont want to sell these images,but i wanna use them as backgrounds to my music for yt and tik tok
so my qs is can i do that? cause it says the site is royalty free images.i dont want to get warnings in the future from yt .
is anyone else using these from these sites to your project?

Firn:
Royalty free doesn't mean "free to use". Royalty free  means once you purchased a licence you do not need to pay royalties or license fees for each use if you want to use the image multiple times.

Public domain is a different thing. For an image to become an public domain image the image must be older than 1964 and (!) the copyright owner must not have renewed copyright or, for newer images, the copyright owner dedicated the image to the public domain. In the case of the original Wizard of Oz movie, it seems to be a tricky case:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110221/11325413190/appeals-court-to-determine-if-wizard-oz-images-can-be-retroactively-plucked-out-public-domain.shtml

cascoly:
freesites are dangerous - just because they say images are free to use doesn't make it so.  better to use public domain images from the source - eg NY public library & NY metropolitan Museum both of which have enormous collections

lostintimeline:
ok thanks for the answers..that saved me lots of trouble

k_t_g:
Or you can get a friend and make pics for you or if you have some experience take them your self. Lots of options.  :)

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