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Did you pay for the other illustrations on your home page? They look a bit disparate, and some turn up elsewhere in an image search:

https://dribbble.com/shots/1553377-Changing-Homes?list=users...

http://dabbled.org/this-robot-has-expired/

http://www.creativebloq.com/illustration/illustrations-strip...

If not perhaps consider paying one of the illustrators (Daniel González stuff looks excellent) to make you a set of illustrations which are all in the same style - your pages would look a lot more coherent if they didn't have a grab-bag of styles going on, and also you could have a lot of liability if you don't have permission for every image on your site.

It's not really on to just copy images from the web without attribution or payment - you could be sued for a lot of money for that basecamp image for example which is still up.

Otherwise, it's a nice site and great idea though.

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I suspect he's just grabbed this template:

https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/triangle-multi-purpose-templ...

but yes, you make an excellent point. Equally I agree with his approach of using a $9 template before validating w customers and working out the business model...not sure what the theme site says about the images licence wise but it's not necessarily a bad abstraction to assume that images included with a template are licenced with it if they aren't watermarked etc.

I've lost count of companies & individuals ripping off our illustrations and reselling them bundled into their templates.

Especially on a $9 template, the odds of them being properly licensed at that price point, I'd be surprised.

In this case, the author mentions it's an editorial piece for a magazine. ( https://dribbble.com/shots/1553377-Changing-Homes )

In light of the fact that the template you've linked looks exactly like recallbee.com, the author's comment "Thanks, I actually copied the image to see what it'd look like in place and forgot to take it out" seems disingenuous.

Not really. He just bought the template and customized it, and I imagine he wrote his own back-end as well. After all, it's just a bootstrap theme.

Seems like an honest mistake in using this theme, though taking an image from bootcamp is a little weird, probably just forgot but it should never have been in there even in a mockup.

The theme authors themeum should be ashamed of themselves though, and it looks like their theme has been swiftly deleted as it is now 404.

http://www.themeum.com/

http://demo.themeum.com/#organic_life

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36161769@N05/5896987315

Seems really unlikely that template has licensed all those images either given it's from a template farm that looks like they churn these things out and the many sources.

According to this, they're all Creative Commons-licensed: https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/triangle-multi-purpose-templ...

I don't really know if I believe that, but there we are.

Note that he/she doesn't say which Creative Commons license. It could be a non-commercial license.

Besides, I don't see any attributions to the artists for these images (which is required for all the various Creative Commons licenses).

I highly doubt this theme is legitimate. OP, be wary of using this theme.

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