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Using images from Google images?

by brazosbelle
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Can someone tell me the ethical way to use images that appear on Google?

I am creating a website with my grandchildren and it involves unusual animals. Can you use images from Wikipedia?

Thanks,
Patti
#google #images
  • Profile picture of the author Ken Wong
    That's really cool that you're creating a site with your family! Such fun. And yep, the video above is good. I would have advised the same.
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    Informative PLR articles written to inform, not optimize. Good for creating quality products that provide solutions. Good as research.
    Bad for SEO
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  • Profile picture of the author brazosbelle
    Thanks to both of you!

    I really appreciate the info~

    Patti
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Be sure also to do a search in Google about "royalty free images", and specify a specific image, and visit the websites that appears in the search results.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rebeccha Haase
    Most of the images which are royalty free contains watermarks. We cannot use them for those watermarks. What can be done in this case? Can anyone suggest?
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  • Profile picture of the author SurrealPSD
    More good free stock sites, including textures:

    • DeviantArt Stock Browser >> The best figurative stock site on the web. (check useage terms in description)

    • CG Textures >> Excellent textures and objects stock directory.

    • Mayang’s Free Texture Library >> Textures for every occassion.

    • Lost & Taken >> Beautiful collection of free Textures.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mindstorms
    Originally Posted by brazosbelle View Post

    I am creating a website with my grandchildren and it involves unusual animals. Can you use images from Wikipedia?
    I did some research a while back on this --- specifically re: Wikipedia image usage. This is a reply from from an administrator on the English Wikipedia (my email to him involved other items, so I only paste in what's pertinent here):

    First of all, on Wikipedia, you can usually find images either by browsing articles or by using an image category such as Category:Wikipedia featured pictures (< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wi... >). Many Wikipedia articles use images located at another Wikimedia Foundation project, Wikimedia Commons (< http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_P... >), and this is another good spot to browse for images.

    Once you've found an image you like, click on it: each image, on Wikimedia wikis, is a link to an image description page. On this page, you have access to the full-resolution images, image metadata and file history, and a description of both the image and its copyright status/license.

    If you found the image on Wikipedia and not through Commons, double-check that the image description page does not say that the image is used under "fair use". If the image is under fair-use, that means that it is a copyrighted image which is used on Wikipedia only under a strict interpretation of a U.S. copyright law allowing limited use of copyrighted materials without a license for appropriate purposes.
    If the image is not under fair use, check the license. It is probably one of the following:
    1. A Creative Commons license
    2. The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
    3. In the public domain

    If the license is Creative Commons, you're lucky: the Creative Commons family of licenses were designed to be simple to use. A file under a Creative Commons license is free for redistribution by anyone to anyone so long as one follows any extra restrictions with the license. These are typically Attribution, which means that one must credit the author(s) of the image when re-using it; Share-Alike, which means that if one creates a new version of the image, one must also license that new image under the same license; No-Derivatives, which means that one is not allowed to make changes to the image and redistribute that; and Non-Commercial, which means that one is not allowed to use the image in any commercial context.
    Either way, one should indicate the license of the image, as good practice.
    Note that on Wikimedia projects, Creative Commons licenses using Non-Commercial are used only under fair-use, as at < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_P... >

    If the license is the GFDL, you have a more interesting problem. In general the GFDL is similar to the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike, but is stricter about indicating the license, indicating the author(s), and making the GFDL available to the reader. I recommend that if you want to use an image under the GFDL, you read the Wikipedia article about it at < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Do... >.

    If the photo is in the public domain, you're home-free: public domain images can be used for any purpose by anyone without any conditions (though if someone asks nicely to respect a non-binding condition such as letting them know where you're using it, it's polite to oblige)

    Remember that *unless an image is public domain, it is COPYRIGHTED* and you are merely taking advantage of a permissive license to use it.

    If you can't indicate the license properly or otherwise obey the license conditions, don't use the image.
    Mike
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  • Profile picture of the author 100KAffiliateManager
    Hi Patti, here's a link to a video that explains 'Creative Commons', which will help you when selecting images to use i.e whether the license allows you to use the image for free and whether you have to include attribution to the image owner. There are also links to a number of sites that offer images with suitable licensing - Creative Commons
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  • Profile picture of the author brazosbelle
    Thanks for all the suggestions - I feel very well informed now!

    Have a great weekend~
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