RE: Simi: My favorite celebrity
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You seemed to have used a copyrighted image without the owner's permission.
You can search for free images of anything by doing a google search as follows:
Google Image Search>>Your Search Term>>Tools>>Usage Rights>>Creative Commons Images.
When you use Creative Commons Licensed images make sure you give Attribution Citation as required by the Creative Commons license. Wikimedia usually gives the code for the Attribution Citation, which you just need to copy and paste in your blog post. Something like this:
Ndanitv, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Thanks for the update. I had used Google and I thought copying the link directly from the writer's page was copyright free
Nope. Any image you use from the internet (other than the sources a) to c) cited below) is almost always not a free image. To be sure always use images from these sources:
a) a free stock image website like Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexels, Freepik, PurePNG, OpenVerse etc. There are many such websites. Look out for them and bookmark them.
b) Wikimedia Commons
c) Google Image Search>>Your Search Term>>Tools>>Usage Rights>>Creative Commons Images. Be careful with this though because Google does list "Not Free To Use" images here by error. Verify first by checking the license of the particular image you have chosen.
d) Commercial Stock Image websites.
Almost all license will ask you to give attribution in some form or other. Commercial licenses usually do not ask for attribution. But it is always advisable to give attribution to be transparent, professional and to maintain your integrity and that of Hive.
If you follow the attribution guidelines of Creative Commons for all your images (whether your own, commercial or free) you will always be safe.
For this particular post of yours, you could have used this image from wikimedia commons (see also how attribution was given at the bottom of the image as required by Creative Commons License):
Ndanitv, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thank so much for the links. Greatly appreciated. I couldn't get the image on unsplash, pixabay , and pexel, decided to google it
Use these search format when searching for free images on Google Images Search Page:
Google Image Search>>Your Search Term>>Tools>>Usage Rights>>Creative Commons Images.
Usually it will be difficult to find free images of celebrities on most websites except on Wikimedia Commons or under the search format above.
I will.
Thank You