USING IMAGES

FROM THE WEB

No strings attached?

© 2014, Sherrie Lee

Respect Copyright

Any creation, image or otherwise, is copyrighted whether the symbol © is used or not.

That means you can’t copy and use them as if you owned them - you don’t!

Images that you can use legitimately without paying for them fall into three categories.

Go Legit

Public domain Free stock images Creative commons

Credit the creator or acknowledge the source where required.

Public Domain

Refers to material that is ‘publicly available’ and not covered by intellectual property or copyrights.

Wikimedia Commons has categorised public domain images in various categories such as objects, animals & plants, nature & science, history, country and art.

The resource page also lists many collections ranging from user generated content to historical images.

Free Stock Images

Stock photos refer to semi and fully professionally taken photographs which can be used for creative or business purposes in lieu of hiring a photographer for a given project.

Usually, users retrieve stock photos from stock photo websites, which often license images for designated one-time uses, or sell royalty-free rights to photos that can be purchased once and used repeatedly.

The use of “free” in this case means not having to pay for the licence to use the images. May require attribution in some cases.

My Personal Top 10

death to the stock photo http://join.deathtothestockphoto.com/free images http://www.freeimages.comFree Refe Mobile Photos http://getrefe.tumblr.com/Free Use on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/freeuse/gratisography http://www.gratisography.com/little visuals http://littlevisuals.co/morgueFile http://www.morguefile.com/New Old Stock http://nos.twnsnd.co/picjumbo http://picjumbo.com/unsplash http://unsplash.com/

Creative Commons

an alternative to copyrights by filling in the gap between full copyright, in which no use is permitted without permission, and public domain, where permission is not required at all.

Creative Commons' licenses let people copy and distribute the work under specific conditions.

Creative Commons Licences

Some CC Resources

CC search http://search.creativecommons.org/Flickr image search (compfight, photopin)Open Photo http://openphoto.net/Superfamous http://superfamous.com/

Google Drive: Find images within a Google Presentation (click on Insert>Image)

special mention

Credits

Slide 1 freeimages: Balloons by Asif Akbar

Slide 8 Flickr: Creative Commons Swag Contest 2007_2 by TilarX (CC BY 2.0)Slide 9 Taken from http://ontheline.trincoll.edu/oral-history/creative-commons/

Other images used in this presentation are from free sources such as openclipart or are screenshots.

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