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Google Apps Hacks
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Google Apps Hacks

by Philipp Lenssen
April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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85  - FIND IMAGES FOR YOUR PRESENTATION
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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.
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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 ...
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