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These are great. I feel like I'm in the end of "Steemit: The Struggle" and am about to start the first chapter of "Steemit: The Ascending".

We all go through it!

omg. awesome. thank you so much. im glad we have someone on steemit who sares core fundemental valures of originally created true content and authorism willing to share with others for the value of the greater good. thank you. this is truly unique, amazing, and exceptionally useful for everyone.

I am glad you like them @floyd25.
There are many short intro vids on my Youtube as well that are creative commons.
https://www.youtube.com/user/hm2ski/videos

hehe. i watched and liked a few of your videos. i really liked the digibyte and steemit flag. i also subscribed to you.

ill check it out.

Awesome collections.

Nice

Love the second one. It's so rad!

Thank you @hilarski :)

An impressive meme talent @hilarski Perfect perceptive reveal, nice :-)
Do you take requests?

What are you looking for?

The steem logo on a parachute. Parachute with payload of person, or ??? with the logo directly or subtlely revealed.
Go as wide as you feel, you're the artist.
My first idea is my wish and the others self generated in my musicians mind
I appreciate your asking :-)

Nice!

I love the books in the first image!

excelente publicacion :)

Are these images your own work from photography to editing? Are these images already CC0 licensed when you start with? If not, have you paid for the license and its owned by you?

Copyright is a scary thing.. I do appreciate your thoughts and efforts into this but I feel concerned for whether you have done it through the right process flow.

Thanks for the info. These sites can be quite useful when developing content.

This site is just another photo sharing site.
What you are not allowed to do:
You are not allowed to use the Website (or to copy or use any material from the Website) for any commercial purpose other than to conduct a commercial transaction with us unless you have our permission. Such forbidden commercial transactions include allowing access to your photo album in return for payment or for any other commercial purpose.

You are using these images commercially and for profit. And then have the nerve to tell everyone to do the same. This is beyond irresponsible, and every photo that was NOT created/shot by you should be removed.

Its a very grey area when it comes to Steemit (but of course a strong argument can be made) because @hilarski did not technically ask for payment. Since he did express his intentions are to share the images and no way did he charge anyone. Then again, it's Grey when it comes to the term "profit" so I'm in no position to comment on that.

I guess the lesson we can all learn here is to first understand about copyright firsthand and make sure we all have express permission from the original photographer and the photo subject before using the pictures for whatever purpose.

@hilarski im sure your intentions are good. You create content which people can share within the community. But the "mess up" here is the whole copyright thing. Imagine if someone used your image and slap a meme aggregator company brand on it without letting you know. If it's me I'd be pissed and feel violated.

There will be angry people because I know many of them can either relate to someone who have their work stolen or had their own photographs hijacked and made profit by someone else.

I hope you understand the outcry.

@awesomianist There is absolutely zero grey area in this matter. I find it difficult to believe that with all the other photographers here that this has not already been addressed within the SteemIt community. To smugly cite a link with its terms to an image site that you do not fully comprehend, alter images by commercializing them with a brand, accepting payment on post (profiting), and then telling the entire community to do the same, smacks of blatant intellectual property theft/copyright infringement, and only perpetuates the ignorance. No one is above copyright laws. If you don't fully understand the implications associated with these issues, I strongly recommend exercising the time to educate yourselves about them.

Perhaps I'm too liberal to say that there is grey area.
However I must agree on all your other points. In fact I believe copyright is a very important matter and one of the main concern by the greater community.

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@yournextstepdad Here is a prime example of right-click-save work, and re-branded with SteemIt logos. I can tell you right now that if either the photographer, publisher or singer, or all three mentioned in the last image stumbled across this, SteeemIt and the person who posted this could be sued and would lose....big time.

Hardly, this is from an open site that allows you to make images from free stock photos. Here is an example of a comment from a person who is has no idea what they are talking about.

Why don't you contact Victoria Beckham and see what her first response will be to her likeness being used to promote something she is not being paid for? You are profiting on this post, using the work or likeness of others, without permission or compensation to them. Talk about someone who doesn't know what they are talking about,

Enjoy https://photofunia.com/terms
I will take the Beckham one down just because even I feel it is a little much.

are these books real ones ?

Nope, just having some fun.

yep! I guessed that :)

did you make these

wow..is it for real?..nice post!!

Nope, but it will be someday.

Wow, awesome image.

Nice stuff... thanks for sharing!

Fourth one is the coolest for me! I think most people will use that one!!!

yayy @hilarski, I'm gonna use it today , thank you for this ^_^

Nice work brother! Thanks for the heads up. Still working on building a following. Want to prove you can earn enough to live off everyday from steem to some friends, and as a great project for sharing with the global community the developments of this awesome platform!

ROck on

Thank you sir :)

They all look great Randy, nicely done dude!

Well done!