privacy photography
Using someone else’s photograph
<p>Is it illegal to copy a picture of someone else, found on a public site, and use it on your own site?</p>

<p>Broadly yes, this is copyright infringement, even if you can see the picture on a "publicly accessible" website, that doesn't give you the right to use it. You need permission from the copyright holder (which may not be the same as the website owner).</p>

<p>If by "public site" you mean a site that shares stock pictures for free (with copyright release), then it would be legal, but I'm guessing you mean any picture from a site you can access. This would not be a legal use.</p>
