Attorney and social media writer, Sara Hawkins, snaps the 12 Most Picture Perfect Ways To Ensure You’re Legally Using Online Photos.

1. Did you take the photo or create the graphic?

2. Plagiarism and copyright infringement are not the same

3. Attribution does not make it right

4. Ask and you may receive

5. Avoid all problems and use public domain images

6. Understand the Creative Commons license you use

7. Different uses come with different obligations.

8. Fair Use likely doesn’t mean what you think it means

9. Assume every image you find online is copyrighted

10. Your website, your liability

11. Making changes to a copyrighted image doesn’t make it yours

12. Just because other people do it doesn’t make it right

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