
85 - FIND IMAGES FOR YOUR PRESENTATION
HaCK 31:
Not an artist or great photographer yourself, or just in a hurry to
nd the right image to help get your point across? Look for work
with special free-to-share licenses.
If you want to spice up your Google Presentation with a telling visual, and you don’t have a graphic
designer to provide you with a custom-made one, you might be tempted to head straight to Google
Images to perform a search. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to determine the copyright status
of images you nd on Google Images, and determining what is within your “fair use” rights for
republishing copyrighted images can get complicated and may require legal advice (and obtaining
permission to use a copyrighted image is usually rather time-consuming).
One way to make sure you are allowed to use a given picture is to look for it in public domain
resources. For instance, very old pictures may be in the public domain, which is essentially a
copyright-free zone. There are also websites dedicated to offering you public domain clip art, like the
extensive http://www.openclipart.org.
But what about nding high-quality and recent photos? Enter the Creative Commons initiative
(http://creativecommons.org). Creative Commons is a licensing scheme that allows the ...