Navigating the Complexities of Fair-Use & Copyright
HubSpot writes about some of the complexities about fair use and copyright online these days, particular when it comes to images. In the article, they narrate a recent incident where they used an image marked with a Creative Commons license only to find out that the image was actually had royalties associated.
Consider the history of the music industry and piracy on the web. A stock photography site that comes up with the image-borrowing equivalent of Pandora and Spotify could have something pretty amazing up its sleeves.
The author then hits at better safeguards for preventing such incidents but stops short of making a recommendation on what the solution actually is.