A short presentation on how to find images legitimately for free. Learn about the differences between public domain images, stock photography and creative commons images. Originally available as a Google Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CbZ79D0bKmCRpnWgGmNelvMYUxFp7rQfA2pbjkQ12AI/edit?usp=sharing

1. USING IMAGES
FROM THE WEB
No strings attached?
© 2014, Sherrie Lee

2. Respect Copyright
Any creation, image or otherwise, is
copyrighted whether the symbol © is
used or not.
That means you can’t copy and use them
as if you owned them - you don’t!

3. Images that you can use legitimately without
paying for them fall into three categories.
Go Legit
Public domain Free stock images Creative commons
Credit the creator or acknowledge the source where required.

4. Public Domain
Refers to material that is ‘publicly available’ and not
covered by intellectual property or copyrights.

5. Wikimedia Commons has categorised public domain
images in various categories such as objects, animals
& plants, nature & science, history, country and art.
The resource page also lists many collections ranging
from user generated content to historical images.

6. Free Stock Images
Stock photos refer to semi and fully
professionally taken photographs
which can be used for creative or
business purposes in lieu of hiring
a photographer for a given project.
Usually, users retrieve stock
photos from stock photo websites,
which often license images for
designated one-time uses, or sell
royalty-free rights to photos that
can be purchased once and used
repeatedly.
The use of “free” in this case
means not having to pay for
the licence to use the images.
May require attribution in
some cases.

7. My Personal Top 10
death to the stock photo http://join.deathtothestockphoto.com/
free images http://www.freeimages.com
Free Refe Mobile Photos http://getrefe.tumblr.com/
Free Use on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/freeuse/
gratisography http://www.gratisography.com/
little visuals http://littlevisuals.co/
morgueFile http://www.morguefile.com/
New Old Stock http://nos.twnsnd.co/
picjumbo http://picjumbo.com/
unsplash http://unsplash.com/

8. Creative Commons
an alternative to copyrights by filling in the gap between full
copyright, in which no use is permitted without permission,
and public domain, where permission is not required at all.
Creative Commons' licenses let
people copy and distribute the
work under specific conditions.

9. Creative Commons Licences

10. Some CC Resources
CC search http://search.creativecommons.org/
Flickr image search (compfight, photopin)
Open Photo http://openphoto.net/
Superfamous http://superfamous.com/
Google Drive: Find images
within a Google Presentation
(click on Insert>Image)
special mention

11. Credits
Slide 1 freeimages: Balloons by Asif Akbar
Slide 8 Flickr: Creative Commons Swag Contest 2007_2 by TilarX (CC BY 2.0)
Slide 9 Taken from http://ontheline.trincoll.edu/oral-history/creative-commons/
Other images used in this presentation are from free sources such as openclipart or are
screenshots.
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Suggested attribution:
Using Images from the Web by Sherrie Lee, available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Copyright © 2014,
Sherrie Lee.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.