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Finding & Using Images Effectively & Ethically - #ResearchProTips Fall 2014
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Editor's Notes
- Without going through the full suite of considerations that go into deciding whether a use is fair, here are three guiding questions that you can ask yourself in order to get an idea about whether you can feel comfortable using a copyrighted image. If the answer to all three questions is ‘yes,’ you’re in safe territory. Otherwise, you might want to consider using an alternative.
- One way to avoid all this copyright mess is to stick to Creative Commons licenses. Creative Commons is an advocacy organization dedicated to making it easier to use and share creative works. When you search Google Images, Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, and other places, you’re likely to find images using one of these licenses. Here’s a chart of what the different parts of the license mean. [Creative commons licenses]. Retrieved September 16, 2014 from: http://voxindie.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Screen-Shot-2012-12-17-at-1.52.22-PM.png
- The other lesson to take away from all of this is that YOU are a copyright holder. Every picture that you take, paper that you write, or doodle that you draw in the margins of your notebook during class belongs to you.
- How your copyrighted works are used is up to you. If you want to go after people that repost your images on Facebook, you can. On the other hand, if you want to let people share them, you can do that too. Many media-sharing websites offer a built-in option to attach a Creative Commons license to your stuff.
- In YouTube, it’s available as an advanced option after you upload your video.
- In Flickr, you have the whole suite of CC licenses to choose from.
- If you use Instagram, there’s a third-party service that allows you to attach a CC license to your pictures at i-am-cc.org … Facebook and Twitter don’t currently have easy ways of attaching CC licenses.