Providing Product Stock Images

[veevee]

Can anyone give me a very quick explanation of this.

If I were to put some images, say of an iphone, on to a stock image website, is it possible for these to be used for commercial use, or would they be 'editorial only'? How do people get around this? If I had a website selling iphones, where would I be able to get the images from?

[Simpo Two]

If you upload photos to a stock image website it's to make money from them by selling rights to other users - that kind of commercial use. Technically you can't use other people's photos for any use, paid for or not, as it's still unauthorised copying/breach of copyright.

If you're selling iPhones you could either ask your supplier for a stock image as part of their sales support material, or pay someone like me a few £ to take a nice one for you (studio in-house), or muck it up yourself

[Thurbs]

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[veevee]

Simpo Two said:

If you upload photos to a stock image website it's to make money from them by selling rights to other users - that kind of commercial use. Technically you can't use other people's photos for any use, paid for or not, as it's still unauthorised copying/breach of copyright.

If you're selling iPhones you could either ask your supplier for a stock image as part of their sales support material, or pay someone like me a few £ to take a nice one for you (studio in-house), or muck it up yourself

To clarify, I'm not selling the items, I have some good quality stock photos, and I'd like to sell them, but I'm wondering if there are any issues. Most of the pictures of clearly branded items on the stock photo sites are 'editorial use only', ie. you can buy them to use as part of your content, but not in a directly commercial way (my understanding of it, anyway?).

[Simpo Two]

I'd contact the owner (or stock site if it's done that way) and ask if there'd be any extra to pay for advertising use. After all the reason people upload stock photos is to make some money so I'd be surprised if the answer is no.

PS it's good of you ask; most people would just nick it

[akirk]

Are you asking about your photos but containing trademarked items?
If those items are not incidental to the photo then you might have a problem with having full rights in the photo, and that could cause issues with selling the photos as stock photos...
The stock library will be able to advise you

[veevee]

akirk said:

Are you asking about your photos but containing trademarked items?
If those items are not incidental to the photo then you might have a problem with having full rights in the photo, and that could cause issues with selling the photos as stock photos...
The stock library will be able to advise you

Thanks, this is the answer I was looking for.