Celebrity Pictures in Graphics, I haz a question. Options

[TiffanyFactorial]

Createblog is one of the largest online communities for kids all over the web to grab new myspace layouts, website layouts, tutorials, etc. So I'm sure most of you have heard of rev.iew.me & I've gotten several reviews that have bothered me about me using celebrity images in my icons & other graphics.

I'm wondering why if it's SUCH A HUGE DEAL to these people, why does createblog still support & allow layouts to be submitted that use celebrity images? I am NOT saying we should get rid of them, I'm just curious because you'd think if using these images were such a huge deal, createblog wouldn't allow them but they do so .. yeah.

I hope I didn't confuse anyone with my question. :|

[schizo]

Uhh...Moved to Designer's Cafe?
Correct me if I'm wrong.

^Chances of the original photographers of popular celebrity images on Google coming to CB and complaining are A LOT slimmer than someone from dA doing it. People from dA come here all the time, and we actually have had complaints.

While I know it's technically not right to use celebrity images and all that, I've never once heard of someone actually getting sued or shut down for it. Most of the biggest graphic sites out there use pictures of celebrities, and are they still running? Of course they are. I think most of those little stuffy sites that complain about that sort of thing just do it because it's become the trend. It makes them feel like they're better designers than everyone else.

If CB banned celebrity images, we'd never get any submissions. Yeah, we get layouts and graphics using stock images and vectoring from time to time, but the majority of what we have has some sort of copyrighted material in it.