If you’re a blogger or in a writing profession, you may have had a hard time in getting images for your stories. Stealing images from copyrighted sources could send you into a fray of legality. Have you heard of Creative Commons? When you’re using images under Creative Commons licenses, the images’ owners are pretty much allowing you to use their images for free. Nonetheless, you need to be very careful about this. Some people actually took images from copyrighted sources, and then release the images that they stole under Creative Commons licenses — by using these images you may have to face a copyright issue. Having said that, when you’re searching for images to use for your articles, targeting the images that are released under Creative Commons licenses help you speed up your image seeking process tremendously. It’s up to you to dig deeper to find the true sources of the images that you want to use.
How to find images under Creative Commons licenses? Flickr has a huge pool of images that are released under Creative Commons licenses. Another good place to find this type of images is Google’s Images Search. To find Creative Commons images using Google’s Images Search, you need to click on Advanced Image Search, pick an image filter by licenses at the bottom right drop down menu, and type in the search terms that you want to use in the correct search boxes. As now there are four types of licenses when you click on the filter menu. 1) Labeled for reuse. 2) Labeled for commercial reuse. 3) Labeled for reuse with modification. 4) Labeled for commercial reuse with modification. To understand these filters’ usage rights, you can go here.
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