I have noticed that lots of you here on dev.to use cover photos on your articles. Do you own or pay for those photos and do you credit the creator? (you should).
What is dev.to's policy on copyrights?
P.S. I only use my own photographs for my articles.
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I usually use photos from free stock image sites like unsplash or my own photos.
I almost exclusively use my own photos. If not, I look for CC photos on Flickr and mention the artist at the end of the article (like there).
I use giphy.com, unsplash and always give the referral link to the artist or I have some of my own which are usually screenshots or animated GIFs I made. Not sure how you credit an animated gif from giphy.com.
From the giphy terms of service:
I seriously doubt that giphy content is owned by whoever uploads it to giphy 🙄.
Maybe in cases of fair use. Like, my favorite giphy user is Swear Trek
I use Unsplash photos with credits in the article.
no
Nope, I look for royalty free photos or those that can be used as for non commercial purposes with proper attribution."
pexels.com/ is a great source.
I doodle most of mine. :)
I use Pexels, Pixabay, and Unsplash for free to use stock art.
I always check the license. Sometimes they're completely free, sometimes they're under CC-BY.
That's probably US law. No need for additional policies.
This should probably be tagged #meta