If you have a blog and has been running it for years, you probably do not realize that if you do not own the blog photos that you are using in your blog then you can get sued by the owner of the photo. Yes, there is now a growing trend among photographers to sue bloggers and other websites that have used and are using their photos without legal permission. The key word here is legal. So unless you have legal permission to use the photo you might get sued for using them. Now, this may be something new to you particularly since you have been using them for years. Well, again, these are recent trends. And if you are not aware of them, here are some facts about copyright free images for blogs that you might want to know.

First, you should know that the owner of the photo is always the photographer. The only exception is if it falls under work for hire. In this case the owner is the one who contracted the photographer for the pictures. As such, you should also know that unless it is stated that you can use them for your blog or other personal and commercial purposes, you cannot use them without the legal permission of the owner. In relation to this you should also know that even if the owner did not register the picture with the US Copyright Office he can still sue you for damages if you use the photo. In this case, you will have to pay for the actual damages.

Second, you should know that under the law you will be charged for copyright infringement if you do not have the legal permission from the owner. There is no exception from this. For example, even if you give credits to the photographer had linked back the source, it does not matter. It also does not matter if you did not profit from the picture. Under the law, unless you have permission, you cannot use the picture. You cannot assume under any circumstance that the pictures, such as in Google images, are free images for my blog. There no such thing as free images for my blog, as what many bloggers painfully realized. And certainly there is no royalty free images for blogs.

Now, if you are asking where can I get free images for my blog, well there are several sites actually that offer pictures as free images for my blog. For example, there are sites that offer free photos for blogs. A good example of this is Creative Commons. You can use the pictures there as free images for my blog. There are other websites that have blog photos free but you have to make sure you read all the terms of use so that you will be safe. What you have to remember is that there is no such thing now as free images for my blog. And if you want free images for my blog, take the pictures yourself.