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Question: Are there any websites which sells photos that are completely royalty-free!?
i need to buy pics not for personal use but for commercial use!. are there any websites that sells pics that are OK for commercial use, too!.!.!.!. coz there are a lot of stock photo sites out there that needs additional license for commercial use!.

i want straight answers that are related to these!. photographers out there! artists!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Legally you cannot use a photo you find on the web with out the photographer's permission!.

Stock photography websites contain thousands of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses!. A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time, effort and money!. Typically publishers can either purchase exclusive rights to a single image or they can purchase a subscription of sorts!. The subscriptions allow publishers to download a limited number of photos over a specified period of time!.

Stock photo websites allow webmasters, marketers and publishers to locate pictures for their marketing and promotional materials without the hassle of organizing a photo shoot!. With copyright laws businesses must be very careful in using unlicensed photos!.

There are also risks to using "free" photographs!. Many of the free websites contain collaborative works from multiple photographers and artists!. While the websites attempt to monitor the images in their collections in violation of copyright laws, there are no guarantees!. If you opt to use photographs or images from a free portal, it is important to keep this in mind!.

Here is where you can find some inexpensive stock photo directories:

http://www!.small-business-software!.net/s!.!.!.

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http://www!.compfight!.com/
searches flickr by tags and/or keywords, and when you check "Only Search Creative Commons" (which you should for legal use) is is great for finding licensable photos!.

http://www!.everystockphoto!.com/
license-specific photo search engine indexing and searching millions of freely licensed photos, from many sources, and present them in an integrated searchWww@QuestionHome@Com

You can find some good photos at flickr!.com/creativecommons
For many of them, all you have to do is attribute the photo to the artist!.

For paid, royalty free photos, you should also check out istockphoto!.comWww@QuestionHome@Com