You don't need me to tell you #internsrock! This small press for big voices leans heavily on interns and they teach me SO much. What sense does it make to keep all this knowledge in house? None! SO, here I’ll share some morsels from Et Alia’s spring 2021 intern Rye Hazlett. This post will be updated periodically.
Do You Have Permission or Are You Pirating?
Creative Commons Images
Lots of people post images they don't have permissions for. (Copyright of photographs, for example, belong to the photographer.) This theft of intellectual property is not only unethical, but illegal. Many use images they don’t have permission for unknowingly. Who wants to steal the creative stuff that doesn't belong to them?
Here’s what Rye taught me: You can do an "advanced search" on Google images to make sure the images you see are in the creative commons or can be licensed!
Since we just celebrated MLK Day and many people were using images of the great leader himself, I’ll use a search for MLK images as an example.
Go to google.com and click on the “Images” tab. Type in a search for the image you wish to use.
To the right of the Images tab, you’ll see “Settings.” Click it for a drop down menu and go to “Advanced Search.”
3. When you are on the “Advanced Search” page, scroll to the bottom until you see “Usage Rights” as in the screen shot below. Choose the desired rights for the images you want, and VOILA! You’re in the clear to use what you find for your project or to discover how you can license them (i.e. pay the copyright owner for your commercial use of them, if applicable.)
