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 cant copy and use them
as if you owned them - you dont!

Go Legit
Images that you can use legitimately without
paying for them fall into three categories.
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
Usually, users retrieve stock
which can be used for creative or
business purposes in lieu of hiring photos from stock photo websites,
a photographer for a given project. which often license images for
designated one-time uses, or sell
royalty-free rights to photos that
The use of free in this case
can be purchased once and used
means not having to pay for
repeatedly.
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.com
Free 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/

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

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/
special mention

Google Drive: Find images

within a Google Presentation
(click on Insert>Image)

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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Suggested attribution:
Using Images from the Web by Sherrie Lee, available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Copyright 2014,
Sherrie Lee.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.