Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
The purpose and character of use - including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes, criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research.
Please keep in mind that stock photo services, creative commons licenses and public domain repositories of images are not subject to fair use due to the rights they carry.
Stock photo services require you to pay for a license, creative commons licenses confer the right to use an image under certain circumstances and public domain images are not subject to copyright in the first place. Images
Creative Commons Search – Search many sites at once EduPic - The images on EduPic are "free for use by educational professionals and the students they serve without permission." Pics4Learning - "Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting. Photos For Class - Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms. EduPics - free for non-commercial, private, educational use ImageIde@s - free images with a Wisconsin slant. DE Clipart Gallery - Discovery Educations Free Clipart Phillip Martin Clipart - "My Clip Art on this website is Free for teachers to use in their classrooms for student worksheets, on blogs and websites, and other NON-COMMERCIAL uses." Clip Art ETC from Florida’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse offers over 38,000 pieces of clip art for students and teachers. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Digital Library is a searchable collection of selected images, historical artifacts, audio clips, publications, and video, most of which are in the public domain. Those not in the public domain are intended for personal, private use. We do ask that you please give credit to the photographer/videographer or creator and to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in a format similar to the example: Credit: John Doe/USFWS USGov - images can be used with attribution Encyclopedia Britannica - (Badgerlink) Image and Media Collections Dena Budrecki's Bag the Web |
Microsoft Word 2013Online picture searches can be limited to Creative Commons.
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What About Google or Bing Searches for Images?
When you go to Google Image search, you will see an extra option under the Search Tools for “usage rights.” Searching and filtering images by “usage rights” is not a guarantee that images are legal to use, despite filtering for creative commons rights in Google Image Search — the image found in Google might be stolen from a source that does not allow reuse. So, be careful when using this feature and using images on your own website. Bing has a similar feature in its image search, just look for the License drop down menu.