Thank you for the effort and participation! 🙂 But to make your post eligible according to the contest rules, I'm kindly asking you to consider changing/replacing the photo you have used in your article or provide the license and proof that you hold the rights to use it. If you can do that inside following 10 hours at latest, and before I publish the post with all the participants who fulfilled The First Round conditions and are entering the Second Round of the contest, you would be listed on it as an eligible contestant.
The reason is the following.
Maybe it slipped from your attention but in the First Round conditions under item 2) we emphasized that: NO copy/paste plagiarism or any other copyright infringement will be tolerated. That applies as for the textual part of the article same to the photos and images used in it.
The thing is that the photo you've used in your article is in fact, a ShutterStock photo created by the photographer Fer Gregory who is selling his work on shutterstock.com photo stock website.
The link you provided as the image source leads to the website/blog of Spectrum Music Canada who very likely bought the image from shutterstock.com to be able to use it on their site. But even if it's not so, you still wouldn't be allowed to use it, as Spectrum Music Canada reserve the rights for the whole content published on their site what you can clearly see if you scroll down to the end of the site where you would find the following:
Therefore, and no matter where we find a certain photo, image, graphics, illustration, etc. we can't just copy/paste it and use it in our own work, and especially not for commercial purposes usage (what publishing on Steemit is) as we earn money with that publishing.
In other words, just linking to the source where we find a certain content may relieve us of being accused of plagiarism but it still may NOT give us the rights to use it neither would deprive the copyrights of the original author and copyright holder what in this concrete case the photographer Fer Gregory is.
As Steemit Community, in general, doesn't support plagiarism nor copyright infringement I would like to suggest you, and whenever you are not using your own photos, to consider finding some adequate ones on the sites like Pexels.com and Pixabay.com are, where most of the photos, images, etc. (except few rare exceptions) are not only free to use, but as well free to use for commercial purposes.
Following those rules wouldn't just help you to enter this contest, but more importantly, it would help your future work on the Steemit platform to be valued and recognized, gaining more valuable followers and voters, and avoid to be banned, downvoted or with significantly decreased reputation, all of which has a huge impact on your earnings as well (positive or negative, depends on the path you are going to chose.)
Thank you for the effort and participation! 🙂
But to make your post eligible according to the contest rules, I'm kindly asking you to consider changing/replacing the photo you have used in your article or provide the license and proof that you hold the rights to use it.
If you can do that inside following 10 hours at latest, and before I publish the post with all the participants who fulfilled The First Round conditions and are entering the Second Round of the contest, you would be listed on it as an eligible contestant.
The reason is the following.
Maybe it slipped from your attention but in the First Round conditions under item 2) we emphasized that: NO copy/paste plagiarism or any other copyright infringement will be tolerated. That applies as for the textual part of the article same to the photos and images used in it.
The thing is that the photo you've used in your article is in fact, a ShutterStock photo created by the photographer Fer Gregory who is selling his work on shutterstock.com photo stock website.
The link you provided as the image source leads to the website/blog of Spectrum Music Canada who very likely bought the image from shutterstock.com to be able to use it on their site. But even if it's not so, you still wouldn't be allowed to use it, as Spectrum Music Canada reserve the rights for the whole content published on their site what you can clearly see if you scroll down to the end of the site where you would find the following:
Therefore, and no matter where we find a certain photo, image, graphics, illustration, etc. we can't just copy/paste it and use it in our own work, and especially not for commercial purposes usage (what publishing on Steemit is) as we earn money with that publishing.
In other words, just linking to the source where we find a certain content may relieve us of being accused of plagiarism but it still may NOT give us the rights to use it neither would deprive the copyrights of the original author and copyright holder what in this concrete case the photographer Fer Gregory is.
As Steemit Community, in general, doesn't support plagiarism nor copyright infringement I would like to suggest you, and whenever you are not using your own photos, to consider finding some adequate ones on the sites like Pexels.com and Pixabay.com are, where most of the photos, images, etc. (except few rare exceptions) are not only free to use, but as well free to use for commercial purposes.
Following those rules wouldn't just help you to enter this contest, but more importantly, it would help your future work on the Steemit platform to be valued and recognized, gaining more valuable followers and voters, and avoid to be banned, downvoted or with significantly decreased reputation, all of which has a huge impact on your earnings as well (positive or negative, depends on the path you are going to chose.)
hi @ana-maria i have changed the previous image with a creation of my own... requesting you to find it out here-
https://steemit.com/ccpost/@rituparnaghosh/unlimited-wishes
thank you for the wonderful explanation @ana-maria. I will create something of my own and will replace it within 10 hours.
Great news @rituparnaghosh! 🙂 Looking forward to it!