I attend Radford Road Methodist/United Reformed Church in Leamington Spa.
As a gift to the community we are busily knitting angels to distribute to the people in the locality and intend placing them at strategic spots in the town for the public to find and to take home. We hope to have about 500 angels by November. With each angel will be a little card inviting the recipients to attend one or all of our Christmas servicces
I would like to put a Nativity picture on each card and found the one which you used on your website “The birth of Jesus Christ” published on December 24 th 2017
It is a lovely picture showing love, care and protectiveness and would be ideal for our card.
Is it possible for me to use this picture without breaching copyright?
I teach an art appreciation class online. One of my students included the image above in a recent assignment. I do not see on your bio that you are a painter. Also, but I see no reference to a credit line for the image above. Is it your painting? Thanks. Jeff Mishur, Lewis University.
No, it is not. I did a Google image search and used one of the images I found. I could not find the source or artists as to attribute the image to the creator.
Thank you for your prompt response. I suspected this. Unfortunately, this is misleading for students and other people that stumble across this image. My student credited YOU as the artist. To be blunt, this is a form of plagiarism because the individual who made this painting is receiving no credit from you and yet you use it on your site. In my opinion, you should remove this image and replace it with a different one by an artist from the past whose work is in the public domain (the choices are endless). At least this way, you can give credit where credit is due. If you do not want to do this, at the very least post a statement acknowledging that you do not know the name of the artist, but it is not your own work. However, I think that if you insist on keeping this image, you have a responsibility to do research to find the name of artist so you can credit him/her. You owe the artist that effort; the information IS out there. Please so not misunderstand me. It is not that I don’t appreciate the content of your site. I do appreciate it — especially concerning the George Floyd murder. But as an art historian, I take this issue very seriously. I hope you can understand why I am writing to you and sharing my opinion on this matter. Sincerely, – Jeff
You made a very good point. After going back on the page, I see the painting you were referring to, did a quick image reverse search on Google and have made the appropriate captions giving title, artist, and year in which this work can now be attributed.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I’m an artist as well and I would want credit. I will set up a system/process where I cite my creative sources in the future.
6 thoughts on “the birth of Jesus Christ”
I attend Radford Road Methodist/United Reformed Church in Leamington Spa.
As a gift to the community we are busily knitting angels to distribute to the people in the locality and intend placing them at strategic spots in the town for the public to find and to take home. We hope to have about 500 angels by November. With each angel will be a little card inviting the recipients to attend one or all of our Christmas servicces
I would like to put a Nativity picture on each card and found the one which you used on your website “The birth of Jesus Christ” published on December 24 th 2017
It is a lovely picture showing love, care and protectiveness and would be ideal for our card.
Is it possible for me to use this picture without breaching copyright?
Because it’s for the Kingdom, you can do with it as you wish.
I teach an art appreciation class online. One of my students included the image above in a recent assignment. I do not see on your bio that you are a painter. Also, but I see no reference to a credit line for the image above. Is it your painting? Thanks. Jeff Mishur, Lewis University.
No, it is not. I did a Google image search and used one of the images I found. I could not find the source or artists as to attribute the image to the creator.
Thank you for your prompt response. I suspected this. Unfortunately, this is misleading for students and other people that stumble across this image. My student credited YOU as the artist. To be blunt, this is a form of plagiarism because the individual who made this painting is receiving no credit from you and yet you use it on your site. In my opinion, you should remove this image and replace it with a different one by an artist from the past whose work is in the public domain (the choices are endless). At least this way, you can give credit where credit is due. If you do not want to do this, at the very least post a statement acknowledging that you do not know the name of the artist, but it is not your own work. However, I think that if you insist on keeping this image, you have a responsibility to do research to find the name of artist so you can credit him/her. You owe the artist that effort; the information IS out there. Please so not misunderstand me. It is not that I don’t appreciate the content of your site. I do appreciate it — especially concerning the George Floyd murder. But as an art historian, I take this issue very seriously. I hope you can understand why I am writing to you and sharing my opinion on this matter. Sincerely, – Jeff
You made a very good point. After going back on the page, I see the painting you were referring to, did a quick image reverse search on Google and have made the appropriate captions giving title, artist, and year in which this work can now be attributed.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I’m an artist as well and I would want credit. I will set up a system/process where I cite my creative sources in the future.