bella's joy said:

<a href="https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/people">People photo created by prostooleh - www.freepik.com</a>

is this ok or this

https://www.freepik.com/premium-photo/white-horses-camargue-france_6215269.htm#page=2&query=horses++white+horse&position=3

Slytherin Stables said:

Personally I think HEE is too strict with their art rules. It's why I don't make art anymore.

However I do understanding needing to credit the owners, but we should be able to use Google images as long as we credit the website they come from. Just my opion though as a non artist.

Images are owned by the person/party who has taken them. They get to decide how their used, and a lot of artists don't want pieces of their work chopped up for someone else's gain whether its for monetary or virtual gains.

Let's think about it from another perspective. I know I personally wouldn't want someone chopping my horse out of pictures that I post for myself on my social media. Or chopping me out of a photo to use my horse if I had not expressed my consent. Just like if someone found a photo of you on google images and photoshopped whatever they wanted onto it, and then used it as the main image for their website.

These are some images that can pop up in google image searches. Copyrighted images also commonly pop up in searches. Eve is taking the necissary steps to avoid any legal actions that can come when you steal someone else's intellectual property.

willow tree acres said:

I have found many people's art from DA on google with no credits so if we used that the uncredited version from google the actual person who spent sometimes hours on that photo with rules we will never get to see or know that someone wasn't following their rules. if this makes any sense at all XP