Legal Question in Intellectual Property in California

You will likely get in trouble if you start using images from google images without permission from the image's copyright owner. Google images is a search engine that displays images relevant to your search term, it does not in any way give the searcher an automatic permission from the image's owner to use of that image (whether for profit or not).

If you want to use an image, you should acquire express permission from the person who owns the image, a release from any person in the photo, and also permission from owners of any trademark that may appear on the image.

Feel free to contact me or an attorney in your area if you want to discuss this further.

Kind regards,

Jim Betinol

Partner

Withrow and Betinol Law

www.wibelaw.com

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