Free to Use Images for Illustrated Poetry

WickedEve

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The link has been removed. Please contact me if you're interested and I'll send it to you. :)

I am offering images that you may use for your illustrated poetry here at Literotica. I'm hoping others will do the same. You can add an image to your post in this thread. Make sure you are the copyright holder of the image and that all images meet Literotica's Guidelines: All art within the story [poem], like the story itself, must be your original work - i.e. photographs that you yourself took, or paintings or drawings that you yourself created. Those illustrated in the art must be over the age of 18. We do not accept hardcore (sexually explicit) or nude photography. All illustrations must be submitted as .gifs or .jpgs, and must be less than 450 pixels wide and less than 40k in size.

The images that I am offering are presented on 5 pages of thumbnails. Just click for a larger view and save the images you want. Remember, they are free of use for poetry at Literotica. I do require that you add copyright information below the image or poem. All the guidelines are posted on the first page. Take a moment to check them out before using any images.

I hope you find something inspiring. Some of the images were used on my sites over the past 5 years, so there is a lot of variety. I'm offering erotic and non erotic. I used myself as the model for most of the erotic work and there is photoshop and paintshop pro manipulation applied to some photos. Only a few images have elements of other free-to-use images from other sites. My sites, Eves Habit and sexlacious, both had permission to use these images, which are now barely recognizable after being altered in a photo program. All the other images are ones I created in a photo program or took with my own camera.

Let me know if you have any questions. And also, for those who have surfaced lately and seem to have issues with me, please do not abuse these images. It will only result in many nice people not getting a chance to use them.
 
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All art within the story [poem], like the story itself, must be your original work - i.e. photographs that you yourself took, or paintings or drawings that you yourself created.
Question: If this is the rules, then I can't use your pictures in my poems anyway. Only pictures that I myself have created. I'd love to share some of my photography too, but that rule seems to make this thread reduntant.
And also, for those who have surfaced lately and seem to have issues with me,
Issues? Who could have issues with such a delightful kitten as you? :rose:
 
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Randi Grail said:
Question: If this is the rules, then I can't use your pictures in my poems anyway. Only pictures that I myself have created. I'd love to share some of my photography too, but that rule seems to make this thread reduntant.
Issues? Who could have issues with such a delightful kitten as you? :rose:
I'm sure what she means is not use copyrighted photos that you do not have permission to use. Like don't go to someone's site and help yourself.

"that rule seems to make this thread reduntant." huh?
 
I ran this thread idea by the other mods. But for now, I'm going to remove the links to the photos until I check out Randi's concern.
 
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It's a great thread idea. And like you say, the rule is probably there to prevent copyright infrigments. But better safe than sorry, right? It would be sad if poems were rejected because we missed something.
WickedEve said:
"that rule seems to make this thread reduntant." huh?
Just that, if we can't use each other's images, posting them for such use is redundant. No?
 
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Randi Grail said:
It's a great thread idea. And like you say, the rule is probably there to prevent copyright infrigments. But better safe than sorry, right? It would be sad if poems were rejected because we missed something.
Just that, if we can't use each other's images, posting them for such use is redundant. No?
No. Not redundant. Just pointless. ;)

I will check into it.

Eve
 
I used to work on copyright stuff--this is how it works, at least in the USA. If the owner of the material, in this case Eve, declares that there are "no usage restrictions" on her photos or artwork, they can be used without any copyright repercussions. She could set restrictions, such as asking that you credit her by name if you use an image or ask you to keep the work at her site for X time, whatever. The key is that the user must follow whatever limitations are set forth by the owner of the art.

In any case, problems only arise for a few reasons: 1) the owner is unclear about usage or 2) the user doesn't conform to whatever use restrictions the owner sets. So if Eve is clear about the conditions, if any, and a user follows them, you won't--theoretically--meet in court.

Anyway this sort of stuff generally doesn't come up unless there is "commercial use," that is the user is making money off the owner's artwork. However if an owner defines a work as having "no usuage restrictions," you could (again theoretically) do an illustrated poem and have it made into posters, which you sell and keep all of whatever you earn.

:D
 
Survivor contest

Please note that for an illustration to be eligible for scoring in the Survivor contest, the photo, drawing or artwork must be the author's or poet's original work.
Thanks, jthserra.
 
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I should have remembered this: http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=91019

This is a group illustrated poem with my illustration. This is a good example of how credit can be given so that everyone will know that the photo is being used with permission. As you see, there was no problem with Laurel posting this illustration with poems written by different poets.
 
Technically, Literotica's guidelines are very strict, but only because Laurel doesn't want problems with copyrighted images being used.

When there is specific consent, as given by Eve in these great images, Laurel has never had any problem with it. :)

For obvious reasons, the Survivor Contest rules are more restrictive, but regular poems using Eve's images within her conditions will meet no problem. :D :rose:
 
Lauren Hynde said:
Technically, Literotica's guidelines are very strict, but only because Laurel doesn't want problems with copyrighted images being used.

When there is specific consent, as given by Eve in these great images, Laurel has never had any problem with it. :)

For obvious reasons, the Survivor Contest rules are more restrictive, but regular poems using Eve's images within her conditions will meet no problem. :D :rose:
Thanks Lauren. I thought it was okay, but that's why I also checked with you and Ange, and I read through the guidelines. And thanks Randi for questioning that one rule. I do want to make sure this okay to do. I've been working on this project off and on since November. I started to post the thread in December, but December was troll month. :D
 
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