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fjtorres · 06-17-2012, 07:36 AM

Photos you take yourself are *usually* yours but with some exceptions; some buildings are copyrighted and/or trademarked.
The usual criteria in those cases is "commercial gain". For personal use you can do anything but not for sale or for promotional use. i.e., using a picture of Cinderella's castle on the cover of your "historical romance" is probably not going to fly.

Very murky subject:
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetc...&msg_id=004im1

06-17-2012, 07:36 AM	#9
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	Photos you take yourself are usually yours but with some exceptions; some buildings are copyrighted and/or trademarked. The usual criteria in those cases is "commercial gain". For personal use you can do anything but not for sale or for promotional use. i.e., using a picture of Cinderella's castle on the cover of your "historical romance" is probably not going to fly. Very murky subject: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetc...&msg_id=004im1 Last edited by fjtorres; 06-17-2012 at 07:42 AM.