This document provides tips and guidelines for using images from Creative Commons sources in school projects. It discusses searching for CC images on sites like Flickr, Compfight, and Wikimedia Commons. The document explains how to read the CC licenses to understand usage rights and provides examples of proper attribution for images from different sources like Flickr, Wikimedia, Microsoft Clip Gallery, and original photos. Students are advised to only use images that explicitly allow free use or have a CC license and to always provide proper image attribution.

1. Senior Project Commitment
Slides: A Sampler of Tips for Using Creative
Commons Images CC image via
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drh/2578799446/sizes/l/in/photostream/

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CC image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/francois/400487528/sizes/l/

3. CC image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterleth/4616626262/

4. Our Favorite Ways Of Accessing Photo Pools of
Copyright Friendly Creative Commons Images
Advanced Flickr Search
Compfight (search engine for Flickr)
Wikimedia Commons
(some public domain images; some Creative Commons licensed
photos—look at the bottom of the page with the photo for details) 4

5. We also like using
PHOTOS (not cartoon clip
art) from Microsoft Clip
Gallery in Office or the
online version of
Microsoft Clip Gallery
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6. Our Guidelines at CVHS
All images should come from copyright friendly sources
that either provide explicit WRITTEN permission for us to
use the photos at no charge OR photos that have a
Creative Commons license.
Provide image attribution (giving credit to the source) on a
slide, in a document, or in a multimedia Works Cited page.
Pay attention to the Creative Common license—for some
photos, you may not alter the original work. The library
staff can help you make this determination if you think you
may want to tweak the image with a photo editing tool.
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7. Attribution: Noncommercial : No Derivative Share Alike :
You let others You let others Works: You allow others
copy, distribute, copy, distribute, You let others to distribute
display, and display, and copy, distribute, derivative works
perform your perform your display, and only under a
copyrighted work - and perform only license identical
work - and derivative works verbatim copies to the license
derivative works based upon it - of your work, that governs
based upon it - but for not derivative your work.
but only if they noncommercial works based
give you credit. purposes only. upon it.
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Source: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

8. The baseline
minimum quality
we are looking for
in a CC image is
that it require
attribution.

9. How do I read the CC license on a
Flickr image from the Creative
Commons photo pool?
Image from Microsoft Clip Gallery 9

10. CC image from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewanrayment/1250049249/sizes/o/

11. Click on the icons
for the CC license
to understand
what they mean!
CC image from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewanrayment/1250049249/sizes/o/

13. Providing Attribution to CC Imagges
from Flickr
• This CC image from: [insert
hyperlink]
• Be sure to click the space bar
after you paste the hyperlink
so it turns blue and becomes
“live”
• You may link to the original
page or the “download
image” page
• Use size 8-10 font
Image from Microsoft Clip Gallery
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14. How do I read the CC license
on an image from Wikimedia
Commons?
Image from Microsoft Clip Gallery 14

15. Go to the section entitled Licensing and read
the license before using and providing
attribution. Use the same methods as the
Flickr photos for attribution (see slide 14)
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Screenshot from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiny_Grass_Blue_Zizula_hylax_by_kadavoor.JPG

16. To provide attribution
to a Microsoft Clip
Gallery image, simply
create a text box and
type the text: Image
from Microsoft Clip
Gallery; you may use
size 8-10 font.
Image from Microsoft Clip Gallery 16

17. If you shoot
your own
original
photography,
please
include
attribution
that states:
Original
photography
by [your
name]
Image from Microsoft Clip Gallery

18. For my Senior Project, I plan to create a
dairy farm business plan that emphasizes
healthy herds and increased profit.
Buffy Hamilton
CC image from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicenergy/18463755 Ms. Bennett
99/sizes/l/

19. For my Senior Project, I plan to create a dairy
farm business plan that emphasizes healthy
herds and increased profit.
Buffy Hamilton
CC image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/macieklew/2825061412/sizes/o/
Ms. Bennett

20. For my Senior Project, I plan to create
a dairy farm business plan that
emphasizes healthy herds and
increased profit. Buffy Hamilton
Ms. Bennett
CC image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamart3/478545143/

21. CC image via
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xjrlokix/5097846224/si
zes/l/in/photostream/

22. Questions or Need Help?
buffy.hamilton@cherokee.k12.ga.us
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com