Making exciting, entertaining, professional-looking GUI applications becomes eas

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Making exciting, entertaining, professional-looking GUI applications becomes
easier once you learn to include graphics images. You can copy these images from
many locations on the Web. Should there be any restrictions on their use? Does it
make a difference if you are writing programs for your own enjoyment as opposed
to putting them on the Web where others can see them? Is using photographs
different from using drawings? Does it matter if the photographs contain recog-
nizable people? Would you impose any restrictions on images posted to your
organization’s Web site?

Explanation / Answer

Making exciting, entertaining, professional-looking GUI applications becomes
easier once you learn to include graphics images. You can copy these images from
many locations on the Web.
Should there be any restrictions on their use?
Yes. People should be restricted to take images from web and put it into their webpages or applications. People should not be allowed to steal other's creativity and also this restriction helps in preventing abusive or objectionable use of images.

Does it make a difference if you are writing programs for your own enjoyment as opposed to putting them on the Web where others can see them?
It does make a difference here. When you are putting the images from other web resources on web where others can see them, you should be certianly restricted of their use. But when you use them for your own enjoyment then there is no such official restriction. Still it is suggested that this restriction should be floowed as an ethical programmer.

Is using photographs different from using drawings?
Yes. using photographs into your own web applications can be restricted. It can be considered as stolen resources. There is always a chance that such photographs will be objected.
But our own drawings are our original resources. We can be as creative as possible there. We can modify them as per our needs. They will never receive an objection from others. Hence it is always safe to use such drawings in our web applications.

Does it matter if the photographs contain recognizable people?
Yes. If we include the images taken from web that contain recognizable people, there is a high chance that those people or their supporters will take an objection against it. It can be considered as an abusive action in worst case.
Hence such photographs should always be avoided and if we have a need to use those then it is better to take legal permission for that and then proceed.

Would you impose any restrictions on images posted to your organization’s Web site?
Yes. It is always better to restrict the use of images posted to your organization’s Web site to avoid their abusive use and to keep our creativity safe from being stolen.

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