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Yes! Images fall under the category of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. Be sure the creator is willing to share their intellectual property with you before you incorporate an image into your work.
If you're using your own pictures, learn how you can protect YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
REQUIRED VIEWING: VIDEO ABOUT COPYRIGHT!
Creative Commons licensed images will have something similar to this: CC BY-NC-ND
That means "Creative Commons Licensing Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives"
We cannot alter, change, or use this photo for any commercial use, but as long as we follow those instructions and give credit to the creator, we are following copyright.
Other examples of Creative Commons Licenses are:
CC BY - Attribution
CC BY-SA - Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-ND - Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC - Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC-SA - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
More information: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-examples/
This is how you should note copyright for this photo:
“George Peabody Library - Baltimore” by robert burakiewicz is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND license.
To create an ADOBE account, follow these instructions:
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"CREATE, PUBLISH AND SHARE YOUR PAGE" TUTORIAL (2mins 26 seconds)
SHARE
Click "share" (up arrow)
Click "publish and share link"
Click "Publish options" (you can use this space to include creative commons license or "all rights reserved"
IF YOU MAKE A CHANGE IN YOUR PAGE AFTER YOU'VE PUBLISHED, BE SURE TO CLICK SHARE / PUBLISH AND SHARE LINK / UPDATE LINK
If you do this, any changes that you make will be incorporated in the link that you sent to Professor Ousey.
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Below you can find websites full of public domain and creative commons images that you can freely use in your digital storytelling. Be sure to use Creative Commons under the correct terms (giving credit to their creator and other possible limits, which are determined by the kind of Creative Commons license attached to the image.)