Copyright / image use

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    It's risky using any imagery that is not your own and you have not got a license for.

    With people it tends to be more of an issue as well as what you are doing is using their likeness to promote a product that they may not endorse.

    You are likely to be infringing copyright, but whether or not you'd get caught is what you might think about.

    Last year I was creating a carousel image for a football article and I'd cut out an image of a football only to get chased down by my editor.

    There was something recently where a Greek mans picture was used, without his permission, to promote a Turkish yoghurt and successfully sued the Swedish company behind it.

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