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Information provided by Virginia Power for her 'Copyright Surgery' at the ARLIS VRC event, 'The Art of Seeing: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Library and Classroom' held on 5th June 2014 at University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus.
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ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FOR COPYRIGHT SUPPORT
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IMAGE SOURCES FOR EDUCATIONAL USE
Virginia PowerManaging Digital Collections Advisor
Jisc Digital [email protected]
02036975874
ESSENTIAL SITES FOR GENERAL COPYRIGHT SUPPORT & TRAININGThere are a number of useful places to help you find the answers to your copyright conundrums. This is an annotated guide to some of the best, although the list is not exhaustive.
British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC)http://bufvc.ac.uk/copyright-guidanceThe pages from the BUFVC aim to help staff and students at Universities and Colleges throughout the UK who are having to face up to these issues regularly as they plan to publish, or re-publish, online courseware delivered through virtual learning environments which incorporates material generated by third parties.
Content Maphttp://www.thecontentmap.com/The Content Map provides a comprehensive list of legitimate websites and, in most instances, by clicking on the website’s icon, even link you directly to the site or service.
Copyright and the Creative Industrieshttp://www.cla.co.uk/data/corporate_material/copyright_and_the_creative_industries_booklet_may_2012_for_web.pdfThe aim of this booklet is to provide a short introduction to copyright and a reference guide to the many organisations in the UK that represent professionals in the creative industries.
Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)http://www.cla.co.ukThe Copyright Licensing Agency Limited (CLA) is a licensing body as defined by the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 and provides information on licences for schools, FE, HE, public services and the commercial sector
Copyright for Schoolshttp://schools.cla.co.uk/This site is particularly aimed at schools and provides some useful links and guidance
Copyright Navigatorhttp://www.reprographicforum.org.uk/copyright/This guide has been produced by the Further Education Reprographic Forum in association with the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd. (CLA). Its purpose is to help users in further education to navigate the ins-and-outs of copyright law so they can make the best use of published materials in teaching without infringing copyright. Although the site content is approved by both CLA and the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), it is intended to be used for guidance only and does not constitute legal advice.
Copyright Userhttp://copyrightuser.org/Copyrightuser.org is an online resource aimed at making UK copyright law accessible to creators and members of the public.
DACShttp://www.dacs.org.uk/knowledge-base/factsheetsEstablished by artists for artists, DACS is a not-for-profit visual artists’ rights management organisation, the Knowledge Base on this site provides a useful range of factsheets
Intellectual Property Office (IPO)http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy.htmThe official government body responsible for Intellectual Property (IP) rights in the United Kingdom. These rights include Patents, Designs, Trade Marks and Copyright
Internet for Image SearchingJISC Digital Media tutorial on how to find copyright cleared images on the web. http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/tutorial/imagesearching/
Jisc Digital Media – range of guides and information factsheetshttp://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.ukWe help the UK’s higher education, further education and skills communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media (still images, sound and video). http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/copyright-and-digital-images/http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/finding-images-on-flickr
Jisc Legalhttp://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/LegalAreas/CopyrightIPR.aspxJISC Legal offers sector specific guidance and detailed publications to assist you in this area of law. We also provide a varied range of FAQs with relevant examples and useful recommended links to other resources.http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Training/CopyrightCourse.aspxJisc Legal has produced a ‘need to know’ online training package in copyright law – designed to bring academic staff and those supporting academic staff up to speed on legally using other people’s materials in teaching and learning. It is a standalone learning module which takes about an hour to complete and consists of some video, some audio segments, some animations and some text pages.
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)http://www.wipo.int/portal/en/ WIPO is the global forum for intellectual property services, policy, information and cooperation. We are a self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 187 member states.
Writers, Artists and their Copyright Holdershttp://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/watch/Writers Artists and Their Copyright Holders is a database of copyright contacts for writers, artists, and prominent figures in other creative fields.
IMAGE SOURCES FOR PERSONAL, EDUCATIONAL USE
Art and Architecture40,000 images from the collections of the Courtauld Institute of Art. Free to use but registration required. http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/about/courtauld.html
Calispherehttp://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 200,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts
Creative Commons Searchhttp://search.creativecommons.org/Please note that search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations. CC has no control over the results that are returned. Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link. This link provides access to services such as WikiMedia Commons, Flickr, Google Images and Fotopedia.
Discover Jischttp://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/discover_jisc/repositoriesThis website, created as part of a Jisc TechDis project for the FE and Skills sectors highlights some collections that would be useful within an art, design and media context and includes useful guides to services such as Jisc MediaHub and VADS
Everystockphoto.comEverystockphoto.comA search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.
Freedigital photoshttp://www.freedigitalphotos.net/At FreeDigitalPhotos.net ALL the images are available free of charge, for business, personal, charitable or educational use. These free images are small sized, but perfect for websites or draft printed work. If you need a larger sized version then they are all available to buy.
FreeFoto.comhttp://www.freefoto.com/index.jspFreeFoto.com images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License and may be used in any students course work
Geographhttp://www.geograph.org.ukThis project aims to collect geographically representative photographs for all over the UK and Ireland
Imageafter http://www.imageafter.com/index.phpFree online collection of photographs and textures.
J. Paul Getty http://search.getty.edu/gateway/landingThe Getty Search Gateway provides access to an area where you can search for Open Content Images
JISC MediaHub http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/Image, film and sound resources available to HE and FE institutions.
MorgueFilehttp://www.morguefile.com/Archive of photographs freely contributed by artists for use in creative projects by visitors to the site.
NASA http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
National Gallery of Arthttps://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.htmlNGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 37,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
RijksStudio https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudioThis website provides the ability to create your own online gallery from the Rijks Museum collection
Visual Arts Database Servicehttp://www.vads.ac.uk/Image catalogue for the academic community providing access to over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK. Covers all aspects of the visual arts.
Xperthttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/A distributed repository of e-learning resources including images particularly useful for use with the Xerte learning object content development toolkit. Comes with built-in attribution and the ability to upload your own images.
