Can one earn by selling pics?
By akangirl
@akangirl (2435)
India
December 29, 2008 12:40pm CST
Caon i earn by selling pics online.I have lots of pics(artistic not mine) in my computer and i think they are very beautiful so can't even delete them now i want to sell them online.I have heard about site called shareapic but there earning is like some cents per thousand views which seems quite hard even to reach payout. Do you know any other program where i can sell artistic or other type of pics?
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
29 Dec 08
If they are not your pictures, it would be completely illegal to try to sell them. If they are in the public domain, then you would be committing an offence to try to charge money for them; if they are someone else's property, then you would be, effectively, stealing.
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@akangirl (2435)
• India
29 Dec 08
No its my brothers own art pics before he went to singapore.He left sold all his paintins but some pic of those paintings are with me.My bro totally left painting and art.Now he works in a bank but i was not able to delete those pics.Yes some pics are of sculpture and arts made by his friends in their art schools and i don't think its illegal then. Please tell me which site pays for uploading such pics?
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@echomonster (2225)
• Greenwood, Mississippi
29 Dec 08
It's still illegal if you don't have the permission of the original artists. Actually, though, I'm not sure there's much money in what you are thinking of doing -- good artists can always make money, of course, but I think there's more of a market for stock photography online than for random art. I bet your brother could make a lot of money by designing graphics for web sites, though!
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@unusualsuspect (2601)
• United States
29 Dec 08
Owlwings is right. Unless you created the pictures and own the rights to them, trying to sell them or make money from them in any way is illegal. In fact, you don't even have the right to put them on the web unless you get the permission of the copyright holder.
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@skysuccess (8857)
• Singapore
30 Dec 08
akangirl,
As you have already mentioned that the pics are not yours, so the best advice would be not to sell. I am sure you would not want to antagonize yourself with copyright and patent suits. So, please try to avoid.
Please do not and get yourself caught here, it is simply not worth it at all. Prevention is better than cure here.
Take care and compliments of the season.
