How to avoid copyright claims?

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Sergey2016-09-21 17:34:58

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Sergey, 2016-09-21 17:34:58

Good day!
There is a portal about new buildings in the city. In the descriptions of houses, I use modified pictures of apartment layouts taken from other sites. Pictures changed in different ways:
somewhere the watermark was simply removed,
somewhere all sorts of elements, such as a compass,
were removed, somewhere the background was removed,
somewhere the size position changed.
Today we received a request from the company that owns these images to remove their layout images. Hence the question: what kind of images do they have the right to demand to remove? Or, if I made a Frankenstein picture, then the copyright does not apply to it?
UPD: Corrected: https://yadi.sk/i/4mGE-AcovVgcx Source:https://yadi.sk/i/Jjq0_dB2vVgjJ

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Zr, 2016-09-21
@Zr

If this is a question on legal casuistry, then it is quite interesting, but you absolutely vainly did not bring the images themselves (both before and after). Without them, we can only advise you to contact (with them) your legal adviser or freelance lawyer.
If the question is of an applied property, then redraw the plan and that's it. And even somehow it’s not serious: the plans are in a raster, and, I suspect, they are all randomly drawn.

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Vladimir Martyanov, 2016-09-21
@vilgeforce

You used someone else's pictures. The fact that you removed something from them does not give you the right to use them. Especially if you removed the watermarks.

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Hint, 2016-09-21
@Hint

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D... You can
publish derivative works with the permission of the author of the original work.

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Adamos, 2016-09-21
@Adamos

The main question is whether the copyright holder has a legal department.
Because to bring to court all sorts of freeloaders like you - you won’t get enough of any lawyers, but by the time it comes to collecting - you will already dissolve in the gray mass from which you came out. Simply because without investing in the site, you won’t get a damn thing from it - in such and such a highly competitive market.
Therefore, most likely, you have nothing to fear. You can keep stealing.