Copyrighted Pictures

[FileJackal]

Hey guys,

I have quick question for you. Lets say I'm going to use some of the copyrighted pictures of famous people and then cross of them in Photoshop (everything same as on picture just drawn with my hand). Will that count as copyrighted material?

 

[WolfWraith]

You mean as in cutting the famous people out of the originl picture and using them on top of the hand drawn picture? It's sort of still against copyright but there are a few things that can happen:
1) people will automatically assume you have permission or overlook it completely since pictures on the internet (especially of famous people) are hard to prove copyrights unless they're unique. To put that simply, a f**k tonne of people would have taken pictures of the same famous person usually at the sametime, you may or may not have been 1 of these people So if the person was on the red carpet striking a pose and you used that image, too many people would have already taken the same picture, only variation might be angle, quality and possible lighting but they are usually subtle.
2) someone somehow by some screwed up chance figures you out and you get busted for copyright :/ so to put that 1 simply, yes it still kind of counts as copyright.
3) the famous person might not be happy about it if they find out, or they might be happy

 

[FileJackal]

Damn! That sux. I read somewhere that if it's for eductational purposes (does real facts about celebrity count in eductational purposes?) you can use them and monetize them. Is that true?

Oh yeah, thanks for replying Andrew

 

[WolfWraith]

Damn! That sux. I read somewhere that if it's for eductational purposes (does real facts about celebrity count in eductational purposes?) you can use them and monetize them. Is that true?

Oh yeah, thanks for replying Andrew

Education purposes should be fine, facts about a celebrity could count yes.[DOUBLEPOST=1386162524,1386160016][/DOUBLEPOST]I forgot to mention in regards to monetisation when using pictures like that, I'm not sure. YouTube may ask you to provide proof that you own all the elements if you monetise, in that situation the only thing I know of doing is getting actual permission from the original photographer.

 

[Sabrina]

In one of my videos I needed a photo of Scarlett Johansson, so I went on Wikipedia/Wikimedia because they had the ones that were public domain.

 

[AmbossTV]

Education purposes should be fine, facts about a celebrity could count yes.

I hope to use this if anyone complains about my sausage video. Closed my eyes and just went with it.
I'm not a lawyer but I would also think that if completely hand drawn it might be a different case than using the original photo. Would be interesting to know.