Copyright+And+Copyright-Friendly+Resources

Copyright and Creative commons, finding images and including attribution by Miss W. (Source) Effective use of images grab your readers' attention and encourage them to read your posts.

But if you didn’t take the photo, then someone else did. Some photographers get paid money for taking images to use in newspapers, so often online newspapers copyright their images. This means you would have to pay money or have the photographer’s permission to use that photo on your blog.

Your blog is in the public domain and is available for anyone to see. You are not allowed to put copyright images on your blog without the permission of the owner. This means you need to find images that are creative commons instead.

media type="youtube" key="mAk9H1N8beU" height="315" width="420" **Teachers:**  A fantastic guide to copyright, fair use and creative commons  has been written by Ronnie Burt and I would suggest you read this to understand more about using images, music and video on your blogs. Larry Ferlazzo  also has a great “Best List for images” that you might want to check out as well. Below is a list of websites that have creative commons images. Remember attribution doesn’t include a URL beginning with http://images.google.com/ or some other search engine. **Attribution is the URL of the original image.** > > [] >
 * Flickrcc
 * ELTpics on Flickr eltpics is, essentially, a collection of thousandsof photographs taken by people who work in the field of teaching – primarily ELT. These photos are, in turn, available free from copyright for non-commercial use by teachers.
 * Wikimedia commons  – check how you can search for an image, sound, video
 * Compfight <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> – check out their FAQ
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Behold <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> – another way to search from Flickr
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Pics4learning
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Morguefile
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Edupics
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">FreeFoto
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">ImageAfter
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Photos8

A post by Sue Waters <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Before including any images in your posts, **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">please read this very carefully **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">. It is a very long post, but worth reading especially for students with their own blogs and for teachers to use when teaching about images in blogs and creative commons.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Posts by Miss W. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Using pics4learning to find images <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Using flickrcc to find images <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Using Google advanced search for finding images

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Sample tasks to teach your students about using images on their blogs by Miss W.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">**Attribution:**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Article by Miss W. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Image source <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Sharing creative works: an illustrated (and narrated) primer from YouTube

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">[|Using creative commons images from Flickr]

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