{"id":407,"date":"2007-09-08T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T02:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/08\/copyright-and-images\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T03:02:03","slug":"copyright-and-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/08\/copyright-and-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright and Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Here’s an article in techLearning<\/a> that talks about dealing with copyright.\u00a0 The article mentions Google Images by name.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This service from Google takes advantage of all the pictures “found” by Google’s web crawler.\u00a0 From the image search box, a picture of almost anything can be found.\u00a0 Need a picture of an “aorta” for a science project?\u00a0 Google Images has half a million of them.<\/p>\n

The problem is, most of them have “all rights reserved” by the copyright owner.\u00a0 It can also be difficult to tell a “all rights reserved” picture from one with “some” rights reserved.\u00a0\u00a0Many professional photographers will place a copyright notice right on the picture as I have done on the inset photo.\u00a0 If you look closely, I used a straight white font at the top and a watermark at the bottom (click for larger version).<\/p>\n

I uploaded this photo to Flickr and linked to it from by blog.\u00a0 For the copyright conscience person working on a science project, Flickr has its own challenges.\u00a0 Every minute there are several thousand photos uploaded to Flickr.\u00a0 That totals\u00a0a couple million every day.\u00a0 By default, uploaded photos are designated “all rights reserved.”\u00a0 Many people that may want to share their photos may not be aware of the Create Commons option built into Flickr.\u00a0 All the different CC options\u00a0are available.\u00a0 I usually make all my photos available using the CC – Attribution license.\u00a0 Some times I forget and don’t switch from “all rights reserved.”\u00a0 I’m certain other people do the same.<\/p>\n

To muddy the water even more, it is easy to embed a Flickr photo into a blog, even if the photo is completely protected by a full copyright.\u00a0 This is done by copying the code for the link into a blog post instead of downloading the photo and using a “personal” copy of the file.\u00a0 I haven’t found the perfect analogy to relate this in a non-HTML way.\u00a0 The closest I have come is my “neighbor” example.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When I was growing up, my neighbor painted a picture on the back of her garage.\u00a0 It was an eight-foot tall cartoon of some sort (she was an elementary teacher).\u00a0 From my bedroom window I could see this picture which was protected by copyright law.\u00a0 When my friends were in my room, we could “enjoy” this picture as much as any other picture hanging\u00a0my the walls even though I didn’t have permission from the copyright owner to view it in my room.<\/p>\n

It can be dangerous to embed external photos in your web site.\u00a0 The owner of the photo has the ability to change the photo.\u00a0 I have seen people end up with an inappropriate\u00a0photo after the copyright owner swapped out the picture on the site hosting the photo.\u00a0 A more common occurrence is the deletion of the original.\u00a0 The person “using” the image ends up with a broken icon on a web page.<\/p>\n

One of the final options listed in the techLearning article is to create your own graphics.\u00a0 I wish more people could do this.\u00a0 I could come up with a list of ten pieces of clip art that I have seen in more than a hundred presentations.\u00a0 Use of any stickman clip art, especially the one with the lightbulb over his head, is grounds for instant failure in my courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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