Fabulous info, I learned so much - Thanks! I've never thought of looking thru Wiki for images, and maybe didn't even know I could. What a terrific resource.
I use the Library of Congress's website, the Smithsonian's website, and other museums. I check the copyright restrictions but they are usually available for use. For my current project, I was looking for a 1790s plow. The Smithsonian had photos of lots of prototypes, but not exactly what I wanted. The historical society wants payment to use their photo. I'll have to try the Wikimedia and Substack stock photos. And while my software engineering family members feel AI images violate copyrights, I may use it anyway.
As a photographer, I feel strongly that credit should always be given to artistic creations. I had not thought about using some of the museums and art galleries! I'm quite curious as to why an AI generated image would violate copyright?
The AI does not create original artwork. It takes bits and pieces of other people’s work and arranges them into the image it gives you. If you consider it a collage, I agree it shouldn’t be a copyright violation. If you’re one of the artists, you resent that someone is benefiting from your work without compensating you. The techies in my family say it’s going to end up in the courts at some point and we may have to take down all our AI images.
Hmm I had never thought of it that way. I have used my own photography as starting point many times and always thought it looked more like a computer trying to “paint” my work. Does the metadata from the collage show the pieces it took from so that we might be able to track it? As an artist, I certainly understand that point of view and would never want to steal someone’s work. I’ll be looking at the things I use through this viewpoint going forward. Thank you.
I caught my techie husband using an AI generated picture. If he’s not going to practice what he preaches, I’m going to use them too and deal with changing them all out if the copyright laws get tighter.
Wikimedia Commons is my fav too for images. They are consistently high resolution and I don’t have to worry about copyright. For my posts I’ve been generating with Dalle but I’ve had a request for more photographs of me 🫠
I find it wonderful to add images of everything EXCEPT for me... One of the reasons I became the family photographer. Someday my kids may be just as frustrated as I am looking for pictures of my mother!
Thank you so much! I began using this right away as I read your directions. BTW: They are so well-written, easy to follow. Thanks!
I'm so glad you wrote about this. I'd looked at Wiki Commons before but hadn't explored it properly. Thank you for the hours of fun ahead!!
Fabulous info, I learned so much - Thanks! I've never thought of looking thru Wiki for images, and maybe didn't even know I could. What a terrific resource.
I’m so glad! Thanks for sharing my post!!
I use the Library of Congress's website, the Smithsonian's website, and other museums. I check the copyright restrictions but they are usually available for use. For my current project, I was looking for a 1790s plow. The Smithsonian had photos of lots of prototypes, but not exactly what I wanted. The historical society wants payment to use their photo. I'll have to try the Wikimedia and Substack stock photos. And while my software engineering family members feel AI images violate copyrights, I may use it anyway.
As a photographer, I feel strongly that credit should always be given to artistic creations. I had not thought about using some of the museums and art galleries! I'm quite curious as to why an AI generated image would violate copyright?
The AI does not create original artwork. It takes bits and pieces of other people’s work and arranges them into the image it gives you. If you consider it a collage, I agree it shouldn’t be a copyright violation. If you’re one of the artists, you resent that someone is benefiting from your work without compensating you. The techies in my family say it’s going to end up in the courts at some point and we may have to take down all our AI images.
Hmm I had never thought of it that way. I have used my own photography as starting point many times and always thought it looked more like a computer trying to “paint” my work. Does the metadata from the collage show the pieces it took from so that we might be able to track it? As an artist, I certainly understand that point of view and would never want to steal someone’s work. I’ll be looking at the things I use through this viewpoint going forward. Thank you.
I caught my techie husband using an AI generated picture. If he’s not going to practice what he preaches, I’m going to use them too and deal with changing them all out if the copyright laws get tighter.
Wow! Sounds like a great resource. Thanks for the information!
Flickr has some useful photos of places and historical reenactments which I’ve used, but not all are Creative Commons licensed.
I never thought of using Flickr. I’ll have to check it out.
Wikimedia Commons is my fav too for images. They are consistently high resolution and I don’t have to worry about copyright. For my posts I’ve been generating with Dalle but I’ve had a request for more photographs of me 🫠
I find it wonderful to add images of everything EXCEPT for me... One of the reasons I became the family photographer. Someday my kids may be just as frustrated as I am looking for pictures of my mother!