Second, I discovered easy, free, and legal ways to reuse celebrity photos. Now, I haven’t heard of any writer who had to go to jail for illegally posting an image of a celebrity, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be careful. In extreme cases, the copyright violator can face jail time. Charges can go as high as $150,000 for each violation, excluding all attorney fees and court costs. But here are the two striking things I discovered.įirst, the consequences of infringing on someone else’s copyright are not a joke. Look, I am not a lawyer, and none of this is legal advice. But my inner chicken was clucking me to do some research into copyright beforehand. I could grab some pictures from Instagram, Twitter, or a Newspaper and then splash them into my article. And for my recent post, I needed pictures of five entrepreneurial celebrities: Ben Horowitz, Gary Vee, Seth Godin, Cal Newport, and Darren Hardy. I didn’t laugh when I first read it because I am a chicken when it comes to taking legal risks.īut, as a writer, I still have to use images in every article to support my storytelling and to reach my audience. Photo by RedCarpetReport, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0Ĭopyright lawyers have this joke: “A picture is worth a thousand words, but a copyright-protected picture is only worth three words: cease and desist.” Jennifer Lawrence at the 83rd Academy Awards Red Carpet.
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