Fair use of content

  • Unknown's avatar

    Hi, I want to make sure I understand the user guidelines before I publish posts. I want to publish a compilation of 60’s inspired fashion photos as a shopping guide. The photos are curated from the internet, on websites that sell clothes, for example Etsy. So I would publish photos that aren’t mine. There would not be much text, mostly curated photos, like those buzzfeed articles. I plan to do mostly posts like this in my blog, I wonder if it is allowed on a wordpress.com blog?

  • Unknown's avatar

    Publishing photos that aren’t yours is a copyright infringement and can cost you a lot of money. So it’s a very bad idea to do so.

  • Unknown's avatar

    So how are people supposed to have fashion blogs then?

  • Hi there,

    You can read here about the fair use principle around when it should be okay to use copyrighted images without prior consent from the copyright holder:

    Copyright and Fair Use

    However, note that fair use is not a law, just an accepted principle, and whether or not use of an image falls under fair use can ultimately only be determined by a judge if and when a copyright issue goes to court.

    As such, we recommend you only use images that you own, are in the public domain, or have been published under a license that allows re-use, like Creative Commons images.

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