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GUIDE
Finding Copy Free Multimedia
Revised 06/09/2014
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Table of Contents:
Overview ....................................................................................................................... 2 Terms............................................................................................................................. 2 Common Misconceptions ............................................................................................. 4 Creative Commons ........................................................................................................ 4 Search Engines and Reverse Image Search ................................................................... 5 Wikimedia Commons .................................................................................................... 7 Stock Images, Flickr and Other Image Galleries............................................................ 8 SoundCloud, , Vimeo, and YouTube ...................................................... 9
Overview
When searching for images, audio and video to use in various teaching materials, it is important to respect the copyrights of the artists and photographers who created the original content.
This guide is intended to explain the following:
1. When "fair use' applies to images used in the classroom or online courses. 2. Where and how to find free to use, Creative Commons licensed images. 3. How to find the original sources of images in order to locate the creator's
credentials.
Terms
Below is a list of terms that will be useful in the context of this guide, and brief descriptions of what they mean.
Clip-Art: Free-to-use stock images that come with many common word processing or creative production software. Clip-art images are typically simple illustrations rather than photos, and come in vector format so they can be resized indefinitely.
Creative Commons: A nonprofit, online organization that provides free licenses for creative works that provide clear guidelines on how they may be legally used, edited or redistributed.
Derivative: Any work that builds upon or edits another source material.
Fair Use: "Fair use" allows for certain parts of copyrighted material to be cropped, sampled, etc. for use in education, criticism, scholarship, research commentary or parody. Uses that oppose fair use are those
intended for commercial use or profit, entertainment, bad-faith behavior, or that deny credit to the original author.
Non-Derivative: A Creative Commons license that forbids the editing, remixing, etc. of the original work. The original work may only be redistributed in its original form.
Public Domain: Indicates that the intellectual property rights for a work have expired, forfeited, or are inapplicable. Works enter the public domain generally 50 or 70 years after the original author's death.
Royalties: Fees paid (typically by a certain percentage of profits) for each use of a copyrighted work to that work's original author.
Royalty-Free: Indicates that materials may be used for derivative works without requiring continuing fees to be sent to the original creator of the used material(s).
Share-Alike: A Creative Commons license that dictates that any derivative work must be licensed with the same or a similar license as the original.
Stock: Stock images, primarily photography or simple vectors, are images provided by their creators which are intended specifically for derivative, commercial use. Some stock images may require only an initial purchase fee, others might even require continuing royalties to be paid depending on how the images are used. Individuals who provide stock images for free may still require that they are credited for any derivative works.
Watermark: A faint logo or name superimposed on top of an image that is intended to deter unauthorized/illegal use. Commonly utilized by individual artists as well as stock photography websites such as Shutterstock.
Wiki: An online knowledge-base that allows for anyone to freely edit its content. This is not simply limited to Wikipedia; there are many websites that allow individual creation of Wiki sites. Wikimedia Commons, a database of Creative Commons licensed materials, is part of the Wikipedia network.
Common Misconceptions
1. I can take any needed images from Google Images or other search engines, and no one will ever know or care.
False. Not only is this illegal, but Google's reverse image search is making it easier and easier for artists and photographers to find unauthorized uses of their work.
2. Anything with a CC (Creative Commons) logo is free to use without restriction.
False. This is usually a confusion between Public Domain and Creative Commons. Creative Commons is made up of multiple licenses that limit certain uses of the shared materials in order to protect the original creator's copyrights. Public Domain covers works entirely free from copyright restrictions.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization which provides licenses for creators who post their work online. These licenses allow for works to be legally shared and edited but only under specific terms outlined by the original creator. The mission of Creative Commons is to allow individuals to share content while still enforcing respect for the copyrights held by the original creator(s).
There are several Creative Commons licenses, and multiple ones can be applied to a work that legally restrict its use. Keep an eye out for the logos below:
Creative Commons The standard logo for general Creative Commons licensing.
Attribution - By Please give direct, visible credit to the original author.
Non-Commercial Commercial use of any part of this work is not allowed. (May use Euro or Yen sign instead.)
Share-Alike Derivative works must be licensed with identical terms to the original work.
Non-Derivative Do not edit, crop, remix or alter the original work in any way.
CC0 ? Creative Commons "Public Domain" The original author has waived all rights to the work and it exists within the public domain to be freely edited and used.
Public Domain This work has been identified to exist within the public domain.
Search Engine and Reverse Image Search
Bing, Google, Yahoo and such are powerful tools for locating images. However, as search engines only collect data from other websites, they should never be treated or credited as the original source for graphics. This also means that if an image has been used multiple times across the Internet, it's no guarantee that the website or individual using a graphic or photo is the sole owner or creator of the image.
Google
Google allows you to search for copy-free graphics quite easily. Simply click Search Tools and select an option below Usage Rights:
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