Images

Copyright applies to images!

Whenever you are using an image created by somebody else for a school project or for your personal use, you must make sure you are respecting copyright law. If you use an image without permission, you are stealing! You could be sent a bill for that use, be sued or face other consequences. Also, your teachers won't be impressed.

To avoid these problems, make sure you are using images that are under the Creative Commons or public domain copyright licenses, or that you've used a service like Britannica Image Quest.

Public domain images are the safest for you to use. When an image is in the public domain, nobody has the rights to it anymore. You may use it, for free, in any way that you please.
When someone puts a Creative Commons license on their work, they are giving anyone permission to use it for free. There are different types of Creative Commons licenses. Some allow you to use it for commercial purposes, meaning you could use it in something that earns you money. Others allow you to change it for personal use. Others are giving it to you for free, but they expect you to use the image exactly as it's found without changing anything. No matter what, you should give credit to the creator!
Britannica Image Quest is a service that DC Library pays for. The people of Image Quest have already spoken to all of the creators and gotten their permission for you to use their works for personal or educational uses, provided you give credit and it's not in a way that makes you money. Image Quest is awesome, because the work is all high quality.

Giving credit

When using somebody else's work, you should try to have at least these three pieces of information, either in your caption or at the end of your paper/presentation.

Creator/Artist/Photographer
Title of image
Title of hosting website (ex: Flickr, Britannica ImageQuest)
Date created
Date accessed (the date that you looked at the resource)
Copy and paste the image's address link into a Google Doc so you can access it again later!

Search engines for images

When choosing images, video and music to use, you should take advantage of work that has been put under a Creative Commons license. With Creative Commons, the artist/photographer/creator gives permission to everyone to use their work without paying them. CC Search is a great tool to find Creative Commons items.

Britannica ImageQuest is Ms. Leese's absolute favorite. Britannica went through the work of securing rights to these photos already, so you don't have to worry about copyright. The images are top-notch quality. Just make sure you give credit! You'll have to use your DC Public Library or DC One card to log into the website.

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