Will using images from google result in being sued?

[Jake]

I have a online magazine , and we write about Gaming, Movies, Music and Tech etc and we need to use images to show the official album covers, game covers, movie covers but would we get sued if we use them from google images? I mean were not taking it from them but were writing about what they have created.

[Carling]

Goole websites is copy righted, It's alway better to ask the companies involved first.
The word is It's better to be >> Safe than Sorry <<

[Tony Mac]

unless you have written permission from the owner of the image, then yes you could be at risk of being sued!

[Kiron Kang]

Research http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/How...4912.aspx# "What’s lamer than a crappy photo of Nebraska? Having to pay $8,000 in copyright infringement penalties for it. This is a lesson we recently learned the hard way, and if you have (or contribute to) a blog, you might want to read our story so that you never, ever make the same mistake we did.. Recently we made a very costly mistake, and I think it's one that every blogger and business owner should be aware of. It all started when one of our writers posted a blog to a client’s site—it was about finding great deals in Omaha, Neb., complete with an altogether underwhelming photo of the city, which may or may not have been taken by a drunken college student with a camera phone in 2005. You wouldn't see this photo and immediately go book a vacation there, More than three months after the blog had been posted, the client got an email from an attorney. This particular lawyer deals with one thing and one thing only: image copyright infringement. For the sake of the story, let's say his name is Curtis M. Leech, Esq. The long-forgotten blog that was posted months ago had come back to haunt us. Mr. Leech sent the client a formal complaint letter, saying that they were being sued for $8,000 for using his client's copyrighted photo on their website. We were under the mistaken impression that before anyone could be sued, the offender had to ignore a request to take down the copyrighted image. Because the lawsuit came without any kind of warning, and because this was the first time we'd ever been accused of such a thing, we were hoping that replacing the image and sincerely apologizing to Mr. Leech and his client would remedy the situation. We were wrong.
The law Current Fair Use image copyright laws say that you’re financially liable for posting copyrighted images, even if: •You did it by accident •You immediately take down the picture after receiving a DMCA takedown notice •The picture is resized •If the picture is licensed to your Web developer (Getty Images requires that you get your own license, thank you very much) •You link back to the photo source and cite the photographer’s name •Your site isn’t commercial and you make no money from your blogs •You have a disclaimer on the site •The pic is embedded instead of saved on your server •You found it on the Internet
All of our clients sign contracts stating that they’re solely responsible for all of the content we produce, but we were ethically opposed to making somebody else pay for a mistake that happened on our watch. We called our lawyer, and the negotiations with Mr. Leech began. Negotiations Fortunately, we were able to hire a lawyer who negotiated a settlement. We ended up paying $3,000 instead of the original $8,000 in copyright infringement penalties that Mr. Leech was originally seeking. Leech drove a hard bargain, but he did offer a three-month installment plan if we needed the extra time (so know that could be an option, if you ever find yourself dealing with your own Leech). Now, $3,000 is a lot less than $8,000, but still far from appropriate restitution for our offense. It was the equivalent of several months' rent at the office, or holiday bonuses for our staff, or a variety of other things we could've spent the money on to grow our business or expand our payroll. This was our most costly mistake since starting the business, and in the end I was almost happy to pay Mr. Leech—just so I'd never have to think of him, or the money, or the things that I could've done with the money, ever again.
What to know Ultimately, because we own The Content Factory, the fault lies entirely with Joanie and me. Here’s where we went wrong:
1.We weren’t familiar with copyright infringement laws. In the legal world, there’s no such thing as common sense, so ours did us no favors. The laws are set up to enrich lawyers, probably because they were written by lawyers. We should have done more research about image copyright laws and copyright infringement penalties, and we should have made everyone on our team aware of the potential damage that can be done if we post the wrong images to blogs. 2.We should’ve noticed that the photo used in the blog wasn’t up to par. It just wasn’t a good shot, and there are about 5,000 others would’ve been better suited for the post. 3.We missed seeing that it was a copyrighted image. All of our writers use royalty-free images, and they have a budget for paid photos when the free options aren’t relevant. This was posted by a newly hired writer, and the one time he used a copyrighted image he got caught. None of his other posts had this particular issue, and it was an editorial oversight on our part.
I fully admit that we were at in the wrong—but to the tune of $8,000? That works out to almost $100 per page view. Had we been a smaller company and didn't think to negotiate a set