Nowadays, there are several ways to access free content on the Internet, be it photos, images, music, articles, illustrations, among others. If we can find them easily and they are there to be shared and used, why should we continue to disrespect copyright?
Some tips can help.
The concept of permission to use and reuse content is now so clear that the Google search engine itself facilitates and provides a way to find, for example, images tagged with Creative Commons licenses and therefore can be used, or already are in the public domain [1].
Some tips can help.
The concept of permission to use and reuse content is now so clear that the Google search engine itself facilitates and provides a way to find, for example, images tagged with Creative Commons licenses and therefore can be used, or already are in the public domain [1].
Let's see the examples:
1: Search Google for images with the Creative Commons licenses
In addition to this search engine...
In which websites can I find pictures?
- Wikimedia commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images)
- Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/)
- Pixabay (https://pixabay.com)
- Photopin (http://photopin.com/)
- Open Clipart Library (https://openclipart.org/)
Let us assume that we want to find a picture related to climate change to use on an assignment or even to make a video. We should note that many of these websites are developed in English and, therefore, we must use the keywords in this language, in this case, “climate change”.
Let us look at several examples of what we can find in some of the pages named above:
Let us look at several examples of what we can find in some of the pages named above:
2: Search images on Flickr under the Creative Commons license
3: Search images on Pixabay under the Creative Commons license
What if we want to find a song to make a video?
On which websites can I find songs?
- Freemusicarchive (http://freemusicarchive.org/)
- Freeplaymusic (http://freeplaymusic.com/)
- FreeSFX (http://www.freesfx.co.uk/)
- Opsound (http://opsound.org/)
When we use a photograph or other material, it is important, just like in a written work, to indicate where we find the information (bibliography), referring, for example, the author's name. It is not very pleasant to find our work online without the proper authorization and identification.
In the case of a song, you must identify the author and the name of the song and also the website from where the music was downloaded.
In the case of a song, you must identify the author and the name of the song and also the website from where the music was downloaded.
4: Author identification and the name of the song in a video
5: Technical sheet in a video
[1] It is said that a given work is “public domain” when it is of free commercial use and without any reserved copyrights assigned to a person or entity. According to the Code of Copyright and Related Rights, 70 years after the author's death, the work will be in the “public domain”.
This tip was elaborated under the initiative “7 X Média” inserted in the “Operação 7 Dias com os Média” (“Operation 7 Days with the Media”), organised by the Grupo Informal sobre Literacia para os Média (GLIM-Informal Group on Literacy for the Media) of the University of Minho, and is part of a set of good practices related to the use of the media, for teachers to use in the classroom with students.
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