Quote: Original post by Abbadon
I thought of that, its an option for some games ideas, but when we say cheap, things are not as cheap as one imagines, say if it cost 50 quid per model, times that by 100 and you are at 5 grand, works out not quite so cheap.

Not cheap compared to "free" but certainly cheap when compared to the rights to well known images of famous people.

Quote: I wonder how magazines go on, they have countless images, as would say an encyclopedia computer program, or say a quiz game they must have a good source for images, I am sure there will be a group of dominant companies that service this need.

Magazines pay anywhere from a few hundred to a tens of thousands of pounds for photos (news/gossip related magazines) which they buy from photographers or photo agents. Likewise quiz games etc pay a license for the photos they use - although they use ones that are a lot less expensive than those used by the gossip mags.

Quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster
I wonder how magazines go on, they have countless images, as would say an encyclopedia computer program

I don't know about computer programs, but it might be worthwhile checking Wikipedia.

In a lot of cases they use images as "fair use", which I don't think would qualify for this game, but maybe there are some images which are available under a free licence (Wikipedia is good about marking every image with its copyright licence).

Quote: Original post by mdwh
......it might be worthwhile checking Wikipedia.

In a lot of cases they use images as "fair use", which I don't think would qualify for this game, but maybe there are some images which are available under a free licence (Wikipedia is good about marking every image with its copyright licence).

As you say Wikipedia is able to claim "Fair Use" because of its educational/criticism/non-profit nature. None of those exemptions would apply in the case of a quiz game.