Seth Lewis Photos on Blogs: Fair Use and Effective Use Seth C. Lewis School of Journalism, UT-Austin

Seth Lewis Objectives Fair Use – Cover basics on copyright law – Understand Creative Commons licensing Effective Use – Where can you find free photos for your blog? – How best to display photos on your blog?

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Seth Lewis Copyright basics What is copyright? – Protection for “original works of authorship” in just about any artistic, creative or intellectual form, both for published and unpublished works. Why should you care? – Don’t get sued – Don’t get accused of plagiarism – Don’t ruin your reputation

Seth Lewis Fair Use What is “fair use”? – A sort of gray area that allows you to use parts of others’ work if you’re using it for news reporting, criticism, academic or similar purposes – But … it’s debatable, so be careful! Now, let’s deal with reality – If you’re a small-time blogger, few content creators are going to raise hackles. – But, be good, even when none few are watching.

Seth Lewis Protecting Yourself 101 Give credit. Always. Link back to original material. Follow the Golden Rule – Do unto others’ creative works as you would have them do unto you.

Seth Lewis Creative Commons Video intro to Creative Commons

Seth Lewis More on Creative Commons A simple slideshow on CC basics for photossimple slideshow Lawrence Lessig discusses CC – Here and here Herehere

Seth Lewis From Fair Use to Effective Use

Seth Lewis Finding Photos Using Flickr (from Amy Gahran)Amy Gahran – go to Flickr's advanced search page and enter your search criteria (such as Barack Obama). Scroll down to the bottom of the search page and check the box that says "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed photos.”advanced search page – Ask yourself: Is it copyrighted? Does Flickr user have rights to image? Is it genuine? Etc. – Be good: link and leave a comment Using other sites (go here)here

Seth Lewis Using Photos BIG, BIG, BIG... (where appropriate) Best example: Boston Globe’s Big PictureBig Picture – Others: take cues from the many news photoblogs