Advanced Graphics Editing Tutorial: Fair Use

Examples of sites and licenses.

People often find images that they like on the internet and use them in various ways. This can cause legal problems. Image fair use and copyright will be explored on this page. If you didn't read it* last week then please read it now. If you did read this*, then move on down the page.

Reading:

Image Sources:
Google

Google image searches provide links to the image's page of origin. For example, a search for "blue mountains" leads to the image below. Notice that at the top-right Google provides a link through the title of the image, and at the bottom-right a warning.
blue mountains, red sunset

Following the image link that Google provides takes us to the image's page of origin. At the bottom-right, Flickr provides us with a link to license information for this image.
flickr image, blue mountains

This license is provided by Creative Commons. Here is a screen shoot of the resulting license page. Notice the text near the top, This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the license. If you are not familiar with this type of licence then you should read it.
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 human readable license

The actual license is available at,  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode Links to an external site., and displayed below.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia always has license information available. Notice the bottom-right corner of this screenshot. CC BY-SA 2.0 is a link to the Creative Commons license information. The More details button takes you to a page with more details about the image, photographer, and license.
blue mountain image from Wikipedia

Here is part of the more detailed page showing the human-readable version of the license.

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike 		This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Links to an external site. Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
  • share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.