Picture by: David Martin [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
The licensing information is so complex and so hard to understand that I am even less sure than when I started on how to use 'free' images. I have relied on google images for personal use before and told people that they should check the copyright and licensing requirements. I generally recommend free-to-use sites and recommend that people acknowledge the source - I just didn't know how difficult that is. I had heard of creative commons and hoped that I would never have to deal with it. Can you just see that head in the sand!
Lovely photo.
ReplyDeleteI took a couple of goes trying to get to grips with Creative Commons.
ReplyDeleteI found the Licence chooser page useful. I tried all the possible options http://creativecommons.org/choose/
and then read the short descriptions of each license on http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ and it is beginning to make sense.
I even read about Free cultural works http://creativecommons.org/freeworks