Creative Credit & Copyright

Living in a “copy/paste” culture, we need to reflect on our responsibilities and rights as creators in the online spaces where we consume, create, and share information. From addressing plagiarism to piracy, learn about copyright and fair use.

“Digital Citizenship | Common Sense Education.” Common Sense Education, 15 Jan. 2019, https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship.

Guilt-Free Image Sources

  • Creative Commons
  • CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. Creative Commons, the nonprofit behind CC Search, is the maker of the CC licenses, used over 1.4 billion times to help creators share knowledge and creativity online.
  • https://search.creativecommons.org/
  • Aggregates almost 20 providers (inc. Flikr)
  • Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund
  • Interesting Backstory: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-examples/licensing-examples/
  • SAMPLE
  • PROCESS
    • Search for and choose image.
    • Click image (takes you to image and information page)
    • Right-click on image...Copy image
    • Paste into Google Doc...press enter to advance below the image
    • Click blue COPY RICH TEXT under image attribution.
    • Paste under image in Google Doc.
    • Optional: Change font size to 10
  • ADD-ON: Pixabay ...download...popup to gives link back
    • Unsplash
    • https://unsplash.com/
    • Add-on: Full Deck for Google Docs
    • Add-on: Unsplash Photos for Google Slides
    • Sample using Full Deck for Google Docs with pasted attribution
    • PROCESS
      • Open Google Doc
      • From menu: Add-ons...Get Add-ons
      • Search: Full Deck
        • Click green FREE button and install
        • Launch Full Deck and search
        • Right-click on image to insert into Doc...press enter to advance below the image
        • Click LINK ICON under image.
        • Paste under image in Google Doc.
        • Optional: Change font size to 10
  • Pixabay
  • https://pixabay.com/
  • Community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.
  • PROCESS
    • Search for and choose image.
    • Click image (takes you to image and information page)
    • Click green FREE DOWNLOAD button on right
    • Choose image size
    • Copy attribution from window in center of image
    • Insert image into Google Doc...press enter to advance below the image
    • Paste attribution under image in Google Doc.
    • Optional: Change font size to 10
  • Google Images
  • Sept. 2018: Google added Creator and Credit metadata whenever present to images on Google Images. To see this information on Google Images, you can click on the “Image Credits” link to view the metadata fields. Over the coming weeks, we will also add Copyright Notice metadata.
  • Currently have to perform advanced search for usage rights, click to original photo, hunt for license.

Attributing Image Sources