Friday, May 13, 2011

CONTENT FOR CONTENT CREATORS IMAGES.

There are variety of places to access images public domain and royalty free images .


The Columbia Copyright Advisory Office provides a valuable site for public domain resources.


For this excercise we will use the Creative Commons Search Tool.

The Creative Commons Search at http://search.creativecommons.org, allows you to use image search sites like Google, to search for royalty free images.





Place your search keyword in the bar and click the site that you want to use. For this exercise we used the term flowers.









All the images in the search window are royalty free and free to use.


Find the image that you want to use and right
click on the picture. Select the "download image as.












And follow the directions in the download window.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Information on Copyright

Here are some resource to find out more on copyright and public domain laws and regulations


Columbia University Copyright Office: copyright.columbia.edu/copyright





Cornell : Guide to Public Domain Definitions: http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm










Tales from the Public Domain: Bound By Law