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Tonight I received an email from my domain registration vendor Fasthosts, it offered me five free credits on the Fotolia image bank website. Fotolia allows both individuals and professionals to buy and sell their photographs or illustrations legally - at reasonable rates too (£0.57!). Having gone there to check it out I found it pretty good. I purchased four useful high quality images using my free credits, and loaded one or two of my own photographs to see if they might be saleable. This website looks like a great alternative to the likes of Getty who greatly irritated me earlier this year by sending a £1000+ fine in my direction.

The reason for the Getty Images fine? A freelancer I had used on a web development project illegally used a rights-managed image from Getty on a sub page of a site. It’s always difficult to be 100% on this when using cheap overseas freelancers, you can insist that royalty free images are used contractually - but it’s hard to enforce when dealing with somebody on the outskirts of Bangalore. Even harder to pass on a fine so I just had to swallow it. Now that Fotolia is here I think I’ve found a decent alternative to Getty anyway.

Register here for five free Fotolia credits.

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