Glossary

Copyright & Privacy

Checklist

1. An image you created yourself

Is your original image based on data from elsewhere? Should you reference that?
Are there privacy issues? Have you got permission from people featured in the photo?

2. An image you own but did not create?

Do you have permission from the creator to re-use the image?
Do you need to get that in writing?

3. An image offered free for re-use on a digital repository

Do you know what licence it has been published under?
Have you complied with attribution requirements?(Keep a note of whether/how you need to attribute the image. Social bookmarking tools like diigo or del.icio.us can help. You can make a list of bookmarks for images you might want to use.)
Is the image in the public domain?

Click for information on Creative Commons Licences

4. Purchased images

Purchasing royalty-free images may be an easier option. Quite a few repositories sell credits you can use to purchase images. This can simplify administrative procedures.

Can you contact the owner of the image to request copyright clearance?
Can you articulate clearly how and why you wish to use the image when you contact them?
Do you have a back-up plan? (Although many copyright owners will give permission for you to use images for education, it often takes time for them to get back to you.)

UoA resources on copyright

More information on Creative Commons licences

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	Information available on the staff intranent (sign in required) CLeaR's copyright page
	2009 Summary of copyright issues for images copied from the web by Melanie Johnson (the University's Copyright Advisor).