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Originally Posted by closetcanadian
Dream Street Rose is absolutely correct. Images of celebrities are protected by copywright law. If you visit www.photostamps.com you will see they have a lengthy list of Content Restrictions which specifies what types of images are permitted on custom stamps. |
Oh -I see their terms and conditions. This is evidently in place to protect themselves from copyright infringement....since they are the one's who are making a profit from this. This also assures that stamps wouldn't be resold, etc. Makes sense.
Images of celebrities aren't automatically protected by copyright law however. There are many ways images can be owned and used by what is referred to as "fair use". The buttons DSR refers to...I can understand if permission was needed because they were being distributed -even if they weren't being sold, there's the potential or intent that they may or will. And she doesn't say if the image used was an existing, published depiction or say, that of a photo that she took.