Follow This Guide and Learn How to Find Images Safely
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1. Digital Media & Copyright - Images
The problem…
You need to find a specific image on the internet for a presentation that you are working on but you are worried about copyright laws.
The solution…
Follow this guide and learn how to find images safely.
What not to do
It is against copyright laws to do a Google image search and use any image you find, no matter how funny or cute it might be - even for ‘educational’ purposes;
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What you should do
Instead you should use image repositories that have a creative commons licence, here are just a few you can try;
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ http://openclipart.org/ http://www.fotopedia.com/#search
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Another good place to visit
If you are still unsure about which images are safe to use then visiting the search area of the Creative Commons website will help you; http://search.creativecommons.org/
A new window will be displayed with the results of your search criteria;
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Always double check the Creative Commons licence for any image that you find;
Copyright and Licensing
Permission to reuse can be given in many different ways, with many different conditions. In each case the particular conditions of the licence must be respected for the reuse to be legal.
Open licences allow relatively liberal use of copyright works. Creative Commons is an open licensing system developed to help make works available for free and to enable legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. Creative Commons licences are available which use a combination of:
Attribution (BY) – requiring Non-commercial (NC) – No Derivatives (ND) – does not ShareAlike (SA) – derivatives acknowledgement of the original restricting allow adaptations of the work permitted, author and/or the rights holder use under the licence to non- but must be relicensed under commercial the same purposes licence as the original
There is also a CC0 (CC zero) licence which waives all rights, putting the work in the public domain.
Note: For more information please see the other Digital Media & Copyright guides in this series.
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