Sourcing Images Online
Page No. 1 / 12 Social Media is Visual Media | Sourcing Images Online Categories of copyright for online content
Copyright - is all content that can Creative Commons - in order to contribute not be reused or remixed (even if to keeping the Internet free and open, you properly attribute it) because authors can choose to license their material its authors have chosen exclusive under a CC license, this means the content rights for its distribution. can be legally shared and reused. But always remember this; it should always be attributed! CC licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for Public Domain - is any content authors, artists, and educators; we present that is not subjected to copyright below the main four licenses, you can read laws and which can be used more about how you can make your own without permission. combination on the Creative Commons website here.
Page No. 2 / 12 Social Media is Visual Media | Sourcing Images Online Categories of Creative Commons
Attribution (BY) Noncommercial (NC) Content can be reused for any purpose Content can be reused and redistributed providing that the author is appropriately solely for noncommercial purposes cited
ShareAlike (SA) No Derivative Works (ND) Content must be distributed under the same Content can be reused as long as it is passed license as the original along unchanged and in whole
Page No. 3 / 12 Social Media is Visual Media | Sourcing Images Online The following pages include some examples of websites where you can source images licensed by Creative Commons or even without image licenses.
Page No. 4 / 12 Social Media is Visual Media | Sourcing Images Online Flickr
www.flickr.com
Flickr is a photo management and photosharing application. It allows users to share images under various licenses.
After initially searching for a subject matter in the search field at the top of the page you can then filter your search to include the image orientation, size, predominate colour range and date uploaded.
Most importantly you can search via license type so you can quickly find suitable and legally useable images to download.
Page No. 5 / 12 Social Media is Visual Media | Sourcing Images Online Pixabay
www.pixabay.com
Pixabay is a website that allows you to download free stock photographs as well as illustrations and video content.
You need to create an account but can then download good quality images. Many of the images are copyright free/ public domain so dont even need to be credited. Above the download button is some information regarding the image license that you must abide by.
Page No. 6 / 12 Social Media is Visual Media | Sourcing Images Online Google Advanced Image Search allows you to choose a selection Google advanced of parameters by which you can find appropriate images. You can filter by location, size, colour, file type, per website, by keyword as image search well as various license categories.
Page No. 7 / 12 Social Media is Visual Media | Sourcing Images Online Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
Wikimedia Commons is a database of millions of freely useable media files. Wiki Commons uses the same wiki-technology as Wikipedia so anyone can edit the content and also use it as long as they abide by the license of each image.
Page No. 8 / 12 Social Media is Visual Media | Sourcing Images Online The following pages include some examples of commercial sources for images.
Page No. 9 / 12 Social Media is Visual Media | Sourcing Images Online iStock / Shutterstock www.shutterstock.com www.istockphoto.com
These platforms offer commercially licensed although very affordable stock photographs, illustrations as well as video and audio content. They are huge archives of images and can be useful should you not be able to find what you are looking for using open- sourced options.
Page No. 10 / 12 Social Media is Visual Media | Sourcing Images Online Getty images
www.gettyimages.com
Getty is one of the world’s largest photographic agencies, you will have seen many of their images used on the front covers of major newspapers and magazines.
These photographs are very high quality, it is a very good source of up to date, current imagery, often taken in places that are difficult to access or dangerous. This is why they are often used by news outlets.
These images are commercially licensed and cost over 500€ per image.
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