Where do you get your sprites and images? Copyright laws?

[berty6294]

So I am working on my first game that I will actually be distributing for Windows Phone and Windows 8. I've made many games before but never sold them so I am worried about copyright images.

For the games I've made for the Zune I never needed to worry about copyright (at least i don't think) so I grabbed any old image off the internet. I know I can't do that with the Windows stores.

I'm imagining not all developers are artists too, so how do you guys get your images? Are there royalty free ones I can find? Easy ways to create my own images? I'm only 18 and I'm not familiar with copyright laws at all.

Thank you in advance!

 

[Giddora]

Have you tried Spriteland.com?

"... they may be used in a commercial product such as a game."

Otherwise you should be able to find sites with royalty free sprites through a simple bing-search, just make sure you read their rules first.