Copyright and Images


All images are owned!

But some owners allow you to use their work.

How do you know which images you are allowed to use?

(image: public domain image from Max Pixel)

Copyright and Online Images - Tutorial

copyright and online images.mp4

Great places to find copyright free, public domain images:

(no attribution required, however I often cite the whole website as the place I found the image)

Great places find Creative Commons Licensed images:

In the APP!

BOTH Google Apps Image Searches and Microsoft Image Searches allow you to filter for Creative Commons images only.

Other places to find Creative Commons Images:

  1. Bing Image Searches (Bing allows image searches to be filtered by license. It also has a moderate and strict safe search for students)
  2. Creative Commons Search Page (aggregates many, many websites with creative commons images)
  3. Wikimedia Commons (has many public domain images as well. Has a huge amount of historical images)
  4. USA Gov

What Does a Creative Commons Attribution Look Like?

It should have 3 ingredients:

  • Title of the Work hyperlinked to the url of the image
  • Creator's name/handle preferrably hyperlinked to the creator's page
  • Creative Commons License hyperlinked to the description of that license

Example: IMG_4258" by j.bohnsack is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Example of image and attribution

Lab Puppy "Nala" by Jerry is licensed under CC BY 2.0