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What should be a justifiable price for an image?
Hi,
Ok so brace yourself for a really funny question from a hypothetical paranoid kid. (Why hypothetical? Well you should understand once you read the question)
So this kid once downloaded a lot of images from the internet that could have copyright on them. He did not use them for any tangible purpose, he just used them as wallpapers, which in turn gave him inspiration and motivation.
Later he got religious and felt bad for this and wanted to undo it. So he deleted all the pictures. Then he thought maybe he should pay for them as well. As it is nearly impossible for him to find all the designers one by one, especially now that he deleted the pictures, he decided to donate the price to charity.
So he is wondering, what should be a justifiable price for a digital image that is used for intangible purpose such as using as wallpaper and only gaining intangible benefit from them like inspiration.
He is thinking $1 for each image. Is it an ok price, too high price or too low price?
Again, purely hypothetical situation :)
Cheers.
Oh and by the way, the images were all designed/drawn images, not real photographs.
@bcnu He isn't sure if the designers themselves uploaded them as he found them using Google image search. But your last paragraph gave him a new idea to think about. Maybe he does not have to pay unless the designer personally charges him (highly unlikely), in which case he would gladly pay whatever price needed. Thanks :)
3 Answers
- featherLv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
You know you haven't really earned from it and just used it for your wall paper, like you haven't sold it to someone else I think you can find the creators and ask their permission and let them know you used them as your wall paper I think they won't let you pay especially if you're a kid and a good kid. Explain that it wasn't profitable and you just used them as inspiration. In case they make you pay, which I highly doubt, but just in case, you are willing. But a lot of people save images from the web and use them as wall paper, I think what would be offending is when you earn from their work without their permission or claim it to be your own work and that would be embarrassing. If you just want to clear things out and let them know, have their images and forgot who made them you can use tineye.com find similar ones on web. or their sources. But kid I highly doubt they'd get offended, their watermarks or signatures are in their artworks right? and as long as you're not claiming them to be yours, uploaders know their images online are downloadable. I had my image used as someones profile pic once, it would have been ok if it were my artwork (with my signature ofcourse) and well not my face. =_=
- Nuff SedLv 77 years ago
Every image and every author would be completely different, not that it matters.
It is not a copyright infringement to download pictures from the internet "for inspiration". or other private use. If the copyright owners put them online, they INTENDED us to download them - that's the whole idea. It was completely legal, since the hypothetical user had all the necessary licenses for using them in private.
If the copies found online were NOT authorized, even if you could figure that out, the copyright owners' complaint would rest primarily with the person to put them there, not those who innocently accessed what they believed were licensed images.
Source(s): copyright.gov - Anonymous7 years ago
If he'd actually gotten religion, he should realize you can't buy forgiveness when you set the price.
