Careful that if you make images for your employer, they belong to them by default, not you.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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That was the first thing I thought of too. Looked through our policies to make sure I could do this without getting in trouble.
It's not a problem of policies; for capitalism to function it needs you to surrender the product of your labour to your employer, so it's actually in the law that anything you make while at work legally belongs to your employer.
I can't speak to your country's law specifically however (whichever country that is) and some have different wording, but I can be pretty sure that such a law exists
100% agreed and what I would expect. I was using the term policies a bit loosely because I'm a public employee and most of our normal "policies" are outlined in state law.
All of my IP de facto goes to the state, but there are a few instances where the laws allow me to get approval to release minor bits of media that I've produced. I think this is mostly because they don't currently use them as a source of income.
I won't be doing this without covering my butt first!
Hmm. Image hosting is expensive so it's tricky.
I know nothing of this space so take this with a grain of salt but with a little searching I found these: svgrepo [dot] com pixabay [dot] com
Broadly speaking these types of images are often but not always known as vector/vectors.
Of course I'd review the site's terms and licensing briefly before submitting anything, there is the chance of bad actors running such a site, making false claims on their front page then sending DMCA notices claiming copyright of your images to other hosters who will take them down under the harassment rather than fight it.
Yeah, I'm mainly looking at sharing vector images that people can use in making scientific figures and graphical abstracts.
Thanks for the advice, I'll check these sites out!
Flickr?
Not what I would have thought to use Flickr for, I always thought of it as a photography hub, but a couple people suggested this now. Will check it out. Thanks!