Copyright: the exclusive legal right, given to an originator (creator) to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
EVERY IMAGE YOU MAKE...or PHOTO THAT YOU TAKE IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT!
An image does NOT need to have the Copyright Logo attached or any Copyright information posted to be considered a copyrighted image!
Always assume everything is copyrighted, unless it is clearly labeled as otherwise.
Creative Commons: (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States, devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.
Creative Commons Licenses
Sites to find Creative Commons images:
Flikr/Creative Commons
Photo Pin
Public domain: the state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.
When do things become Public Domain instead of Copyrighted? When Works Pass Into the Public Domain
It is very complicated, but all images created prior to Jan 1, 1923 are in the Public Domain.
Works created after can have the copyright renewed and the laws differ.
A person can choose to give up rights of their artwork and publish the image as a Public Domain image.
Some sites to find Public Domain Images:
Pixabay
Library of Congress
Royalty Free: or RF, refers to the right to use copyrighted material or intellectual property without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use or per volume sold, or some time period of use or sales.
Royalty free images may have certain stipulations set by the creator/owner to control how the image can be used. Be sure to read the fine print!
www.sxc.hu image license
Some royalty free image sites
Getty Images
sxc.hu
morguefile
wikimedia commons
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