If it's an EU law, does that mean sites that are hosted in the EU are at risk? If so, host the website in Canada or something... I don't see how they'd be able to enforce that on the probably billions of websites out there. I'll have to look further into it.
Also, I took many media law classes (the hardest things I've ever done) a few years ago which of course covered copyright laws. As long as you're not making money off of the images and you credit where it came from, you should be fine. Most of what SFT would use copyrighted images for would be limited and therefore you'd be protected under the fair use clause. Fair use is for commentary, parodies and criticism. My company uses copyrighted images a lot, but we always credit where it came from and we are protected under fair use that way.
Also, I took many media law classes (the hardest things I've ever done) a few years ago which of course covered copyright laws. As long as you're not making money off of the images and you credit where it came from, you should be fine. Most of what SFT would use copyrighted images for would be limited and therefore you'd be protected under the fair use clause. Fair use is for commentary, parodies and criticism. My company uses copyrighted images a lot, but we always credit where it came from and we are protected under fair use that way.