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Google Images

Google Images allows you to search for images and narrow to a specific reuse permission. This can be a fast easy way to find images for a project. To do this, go to the Tools menu after you run your search, then select Usage Rights.

You have the following options for Usage Rights:

Labeled for reuse: Allows you to copy or redistribute its content if the content remains unchanged.
Labeled for reuse with modification: Allows you to copy, modify, or redistribute in ways specified in the license.
Labeled for noncommercial reuse with modification: Allows you to copy, modify, or redistribute only if it is for a noncommercial (i.e. nonprofit) purpose. Most educational use would fall into this category.
Labeled for noncommercial reuse: Allows you to copy or redistribute content that remains unchanged and only if it is for a noncommercial (i.e. nonprofit) purpose. Most educational use would fall into this category.

Fair Use and Images - Know the Law

Fair use provides the broadest and most flexible exception to copyright limitations. It is technology-and-format-neutral and can be applied to any medium. A fair use determination requires a good faith analysis of four equally-weighted factors specified in the law. Fair use can be the most challenging and difficult determination to make. The following tools can help you understand the four factors, weigh them, and make an informed decision.

Whether something can be considered a fair use exception depends on four factors:

1. Purpose and character of the use and whether it is for commercial or educational/non-profit purposes

2. The nature of the copyrighted work (creative and imaginative versus factual)

3. Amount and substantiality of portion use

4. Effect of the potential market for or value of the work

The more factors that apply, the more likely something might be considered fair use.

Fair Use Analysis Checklist
A tool to assist in determining if a use qualifies as fair use.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
The Code represents the library community’s current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials and describes a carefully derived consensus within the library community about how those rights should apply in certain recurrent situations.
Thinking through fair use
A tool to assist in determining whether a use of copyrighted material is exempt from requesting the owner's permission. The checklist provides explanations and examples and can be used for documenting a "reasonable good faith effort" to determine fair use.
U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index
The goal of the Fair Use Index is to make the principles and application of fair use more accessible and understandable to the public by presenting a searchable database of court opinions, including by category and type of use (e.g.. education/scholarship/research, parody, internet digitization). For each decision the Index provides a brief summary of the facts, the relevant question(s) presented, and the court's determination as to whether the contested use was fair.

Clipart

Using Your Own Images, Video, Art Work, or Music

If you are the creator and the copyright owner, great!

If you are posting or publishing photographs you have taken, get the written permission of the subjects. See the language in this sample Media Waiver.

Media Wavier

Other Image Sources

List of Free Stock Image Sites for E-Learning
http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/complete-list-free-stock-image-sites-e-learning/?utm_source=REL&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RELFEED

Creative Commons
https://search.creativecommons.org/

DPLA, Digital Public Library of America
https://dp.la/
The riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, freely available to the world. Search by Format including Image, Text, Moving Image, Sound and more. Rights, Copyright, Permissions clearly stated for each item.

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/
Copyright and Other Restrictions That Apply to Publication/Distribution of Images:
Assessing the Risk of Using a P&P Image
https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html

British Library
https://imagesonline.bl.uk/?service=page&action=show_home_page&language=en
Images for sale and vintage images free for download

Wikipedia directory

The New York Public Library Digital Collections
Over 600,000 items including prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. New materials added every day.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made all images of public-domain artworks in the Museum's collection available for free and unrestricted use. The 375,000 images can be searched through Creative Commons.