Flickr tutorial
- 2. Flickr houses billions of photos and while it might be tempting to take any photo off of Flickr for your own use… know that many of the images are under copyright protection and it might be illegal to use them.
- 3. Usually under the date, the copyright status of the image will be posted. In this picture, it says “All rights reserved” which means the copyright holder has maintained all rights surrounding use of the image. In other words, you can’t use it without permission from the user.
- 4. SO HOW CANYOUTELL WHICH IMAGESARE FREETO USE?
- 5. Let’s try a search for ‘ocean’:
- 6. Before you starting picking an image you like, to find images that are not copyright restricted, you can narrow down the image results by license type.
- 7. Select the licenses that aligns with how you want to use the image: Any license – will give you all image results All creative commons* – Images that have different Creative Commons licenses Commercial use allowed* – Images can be used for profit purposes but not modified modified Modifications allowed* – Images can be modified, but not used commercially Commercial use & mods allowed* – Images can be modified, used commercially No known copyright restrictions – Images are in the public domain** U.S. Government works – Images are provided by a government agency and as a government work are not subject to copyright in the United States *All of these various licenses used requireATTRIBUTION, meaning you cite the creator or photographer of the work **Public Domain means the work now belongs to the public and is not subject to any copyright restrictions.
- 8. Let’s pick “No known copyright restrictions”
- 9. Again, this means that images that come up have been marked as public domain and can be shared, modified, and used for profit and non-profit purposes.
- 10. When we click on this photo, for example, we see it is marked as in the public domain and would be free to use.
- 11. Images under the other licenses might say “some rights reserved.”To learn more about what you can and can’t do, you can click on the text to see what is allowed.
- 12. For example, when I clicked on the “Some rights reserved” for the image on the previous slide, I was taken to the Creative Commons license that they creator has applied to it. This particular licenses allows you to share the image, but not for commercial use and not modified. It also requires you to credit the photographer of the image.
- 13. IFYOU ARE STILL UNSURE IF YOUR ARE USING IMAGES ETHICALLY OR LEGALLY, COMETO O’KELLY. ASK A LIBRARIAN.