{"id":2173,"date":"2012-09-13T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T11:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:06:57","slug":"finding-copyright-free-images-for-use-in-weblearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2012\/09\/finding-copyright-free-images-for-use-in-weblearn\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding images for use in WebLearn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the images that can be found on the web will have some sort of copyright attached to them. If you want to use an image on the web,\u00a0in a Power Point presentation or in WebLearn then you must first ascertain what the copyright allows you to do; this is necessary even if the image is used in WebLearn behind authentication.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that must always read the copyright terms and add attribution where it is required. I always add attribution even if it is not required as it seems like a nice thing to do &#8211; it also comes in useful if you need a different version of the image at a higher resolution.<\/p>\n<p>I am indebted to Owen McKnight for pointing me towards Wikimedia Commons as a source of images and icons that can be used on web pages or in presentations, within the terms of their copyright licences. These licences are normally\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0make it easier for you to understand what you can do with the images. There&#8217;s also heaps of other media files such as sounds and videos.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this I have always used Flickr &#8211; using the advanced search facility and selecting images with Creative Commons licensing usually gives a large number of suitable images.<\/p>\n<p>Damion Young from Medical Sciences has supplied an additional resource, Google: use the advanced search and in the Usage Rights drop down list select \u2018Free to use, share or modify, even commercially\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Baker suggests &#8216;Creative Commons Search which is a meta search engine for CC items.<\/p>\n<p>As if to illustrate my point, here&#8217;s a photo of some <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Happy_Onions.jpg\">happy onions<\/a> that I found on Wikimedia Commons. This photo is licensed under the <a title=\"w:en:Creative Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/en:Creative_Commons\">Creative Commons<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.5\/deed.en\" rel=\"nofollow\">Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic<\/a> license.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/b5\/Happy_Onions.jpg\" alt=\"File:Happy Onions.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Happy onions&#8221; by Civertan (http:\/\/www.civertan.hu\/) is licensed under CC BY SA 2.5<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"www.flickr.com\/search\/advanced\/\">Flickr advanced search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/advanced_search\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/advanced_search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.creativecommons.org\">Creative Commons Search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/sites\/files\/oxford\/Best%20Practice%20Guide.pdf\">Oxford University PAD Best Practise Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the images that can be found on the web will have some sort of copyright attached to them. If you want to use an image on the web,\u00a0in a Power Point presentation or in WebLearn then you must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2012\/09\/finding-copyright-free-images-for-use-in-weblearn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,105],"tags":[206,437,183],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","category-weblearn","tag-content","tag-free-software","tag-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}