Harold Jarche

Photos you can use

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A friend asked about online repositories of photos that can be used for academic presentations and I mentioned several sources. I realized after sending the list that many others may not know about the wealth of resources available, especially for  teaching and learning.

Online photo repositories (check usage rights for each):

Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not! http://morguefile.com/

Creative Commons search, but check license of each photo: http://search.creativecommons.org/

Commons project from various institutions, including The Library of Congress: http://www.flickr.com/commons/

Wikimedia Commons, with many public domain images: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Most of the media in these collections are attached to generous copyright licensing. http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/

* Content from jarche.com is protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License

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7 Responses to “Photos you can use”

1. Twitted by zecool, on September 28th, 2009 at 8:54 Said:

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2. Online repositories of photos, on September 29th, 2009 at 9:11 Said:

   [...] Photos you can use | Harold Jarche | 27 September 2009 [...]

3. Phil Wylie, on September 29th, 2009 at 11:42 Said:

   I like http://www.compfight.com and http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/ as well.

4. Dave Ferguson, on October 2nd, 2009 at 21:57 Said:

   Harold, a suggestion of yours some time ago led me to the CC search on Flickr. Fiddling around, I found a way to search for CC / commercial use / adaptation images (I needed that for a client project). I then dragged the URL onto Firefox’s toolbar so I can hit that combo any time I want. This is it:

   http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&l=commderiv&ss=2&ct=3&w=all

   You should still check the license, in case someone has an oddball requirement for acknowledgement.

5. Harold Jarche, on October 2nd, 2009 at 22:12 Said:

   Thanks, Dave; I’ve used that myself a couple of times. Good idea to still check, especially if you’re using it for commercial purposes. Saves on legal costs

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