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Creative Commons
With the increase of projects being published on the internet, it is especially important to be aware of copyright restrictions on any media you use and to follow fair use guidelines. This is equally important for any work that you publish privately, as misuse of copyright restricted material, whether it is music or images, will follow you and be permanently attached to you as your "digital tattoo."
Creative Commons media are images, musics, video, etc., which, although have a copyright, are available for public use. All media still needs to be cited, with the individual who created it being named as well as the website it was originally found on. For example:
"Image from - John Doe: www.anywebsite.com"
Below are some copyright friendly sites that contain images that are available as creative commons material for you to use in your projects.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ (good Civil War collection)
http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=home
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/index.htm
openphoto: Free stock images. Use categories on the right to browse or click on search in
the top bar
Wellcome Images (medical and social images)
Creativity103.com (abstract backgrounds)
VADS: Free Art and Design Images for Education
US Government Photos and Multimedia
- Images by type
- Wikimedia Commons-Images-Science
- Wikimedia Commons-Images-Nature
- Wikimedia Commons-Images-Society
Picture Collection Online (New York Public Library)
All government sites also offer fair use of any images found on them.
The following websites are from flickr creative commons and are blocked by Bess. However, I can drop appropriate pictures for you into a shared file if you need them or you can access from home.
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-nc-2.0/
You can also find numerous other copyright friendly sites here:
http://squareone.pbworks.com/PHOTOS
