Copyright Law on Celebrity Images in School Project?

Question

I'm a high school student and I have a poetry booklet to make. I finished all my poems, so all I need is to design a cover.
I'm making the cover on the computer in photoshop and I'm going to print it out on a home printer. My teacher will take it, grade it, then return it to me.

The problem is that I really want to use a picture of the Supernatural star, Jensen Ackles, that I found online. It was shared through ImageShack or something, but I'm afraid that I am going against any Private Policy Act or any kind of Copyright Infrigement.

Can someone please tell me if I might get in trouble for this action?

Answer 1

The Copyright Law is not violated when you use the picture only for a school project and not for commercial purposes.

Answer 2

ALL images are protected by copyright the moment the shutter release is pressed. Copyright protection isn;t a watermark on the image, it's a right protected by law. "the pictures belong to the celebrity or the crew who have taken the photographs" The pictures DO NOT belong to the subject. If I take a picture OF YOU, you don't own the rights to that image. I do. "then why some shitty websites have copyright marks all over the images?" It's quite possible they PAID for the rights to those images and want to prevent other sites from STEALING them and using them that or the sites don;t understand copyright law. "such ******* websites put the copyright mark exactly on her cleavage ._." For a watermark to be effective, it needs to be in an annoying place or else unscrupulous people like yourself will just edit it out. If you want a copy of the image then ******* contact the photographer and ask for one.