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A client of mine wanted me to use a specific picture as a background image on one of his graphics. This is how the conversation went:
C: Can you use this as the background?
Me: Where did you get this image exactly?
C: I got it off Google Images.
Me: you can't do that, you need licensing for the image
C: Well I just licensed it. Screw them.
Me: ...That's not how that works..

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    Well done! :)
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    I know someone, good photographer, who published his photos online. Some ""blogger"" not only used his photos as her blog background... she linked to the original instead of having her own copy.
    Woops, the link target became German gay porn from the 80's. She believed she was hacked.
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    This happens so much these days. Copyright holders don't have a chance in hell of keeping up with it. I believe that's why you see photogs doing more CC0 with sites like Unsplash. They've just given up and are hoping for at least _some_ sites to provide attribution. In a weird way it kind of works. I'm more aware of who the photogs are for various images I see duplicated on many sites.
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    Crazy...wtf
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    @Gauthier haha, amazing
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