Pictures – an apology

In my last post I explored the subject of image rights and realised that I was using images that I probably didn’t have permission to use. I made a commitment to go back and rectify that error as soon as possible. This post is my way to hopefully make amends. I’m going to look for the owner of each image and credit them with the ownership. If that is at all possible.  

Now I obviously cant show you the images anymore so if you want to see them you’ll have to follow one of the links. (Though most of those sites probably also don’t have permission)

Publish

So let’s start with the picture of a publish button.  It was a picture of a green button with the word “publish” on it. I used it on a post about the risks of publishing. I tried to track down the owner by doing a simple google search and found no information about a likely owner, but I did find 4 pages of google search results of blogs, news articles commercial advertising all using the same image. The including the site that I took it from.

The image was taken from

http://howtoprogramwithjava.com/publish-java-web-application-via-vps/

but look its here too

http://www.reliablesoft.net/how-often-should-you-publish-new-content/

http://teachamazing.com/9-web-2-0-sites-to-publish-student-work/

http://www.zoho.com/sites/free-website-builder.html

http://www.dlsbusinesssolutions.co.uk/publish/

Tube Train

I used a digitally created image of a met line train to illustrate my first post, and link to the train line that my blog is named after. This image appears to be quite a specialist image so I would expect the owner to be easily traceable.

I got the image from this site

http://www.globalgranary.org/2013/01/10/the-london-tube-undergound-150th-anniversary-on-9th-jan-2013/#.UxTo3fl_v6c

but it here too

http://www.emta.com/spip.php?article661

http://www.skibbereeneagle.ie/?p=292

http://www.nhmethc.plus.com/newsite/FindUs.html

But again no trace of owner, I suspect it is a TFL.gov.uk picture but there is no trace on their site any more.

Evolution

This is a classical picture of evolution showing how we evolved from the apes. This image I used to try and show that my blog an writing style will evolve. But yet only 2 weeks later I find it difficult to eve find the same image again. It’s a fairly common image of ape slowly transforming into man. But this one the man at the end has his hands together in prayer. There are lots of twists on the concept but my image just isn’t there anymore so I cant even give credit to the place that I took the image from.

I hope this post has gone a little way to serve as an apology, but also as an exercise it shows how common breach of copyright could be.