I’m curious how fair use applies to photoshopping images. Like memes, creating photoshopped images falls into the gray area of fair use.
How much would you have to edit an image for it to be considered artistic? Would cropping out a background and plugging a character in a new scene qualify? Memes just require a few words on an unaltered image, it seems.
I like to take 5 or more photos and splice them into a single scene. I use sites like pexels as much as I can, but sometimes I want to use a famous character. Does this require permission/accreditation for each photo? I assume yes.
Man the grey area just got greyer
Grey is right! Have a look at @glenalbrethsen's comments above; he totally explains about gifs and memes. It was very helpful and something I didn't even think about when I was writing this! So thanks for bringing it up as well!