What You Need to Know About Image Copyright
Copyright is a complicated topic. It can get messy pretty quickly.Especially on the Internet. While the Internet is a global community, different countries still have different laws when it comes to copyright.
While the laws and rules may change depending on location, it’s important to understand what the terms mean.
1. Fair Use
Fair use is an exception to copyright law that allows for the use or partial use copyright material. Under certain circumstances, material can be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder. For example, if you’re writing a book review, you can go ahead and use an official image of the book without fear of reproach.
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2. Public Domain
Public domain refers to the state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, especially through not being subject to copyright or other legal restrictions. If something is in the public domain you can use it at your leisure. Work gets into the public domain when the intellectual property rights have expired, been forfeited, or just don’t apply. Many images go directly to the public domain, such as those from NASA and other government organizations, while others are donated by the author. Public domain works can be modified. It’s not required, but it’s good idea to indicate that image you’re using is from the public domain.
3. Creative Commons
The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.
There are a variety of creative commons licenses. You’ll need to know which licence the photo has been tagged with to know how to use it. Some will require attribution, others won’t. Some will allow you to modify the image, others won’t.
4. Royalty-Free
Royalty-free, or RF, refers to the right to use copyrighted material or intellectual property without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use or per volume sold, or some time period of use or sales. This does need it is free! It simply means once a permission has been granted you will not have to pay..again. You may still have to pay the first time. Most stock image websites are royalty-free because after you’ve paid for the image, you may use it as many times as you want in as mangy places as your want.
The easiest way to avoid all of this is the buy an image outright. But images can be expensive. Especially when you’re just starting out.
By Casandra Campbell
Repost : Acarre Community Media
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