UCC Library: History of Art: Copyright for Images

Copyright

When sourcing images on the web (e.g. through ‘Google Images’), always look for information on copyright and permitted uses. Just because something on the Internet doesn't mean you can use it without permission. Contact the rights holder if you are unsure. For further information see:

Creative Commons,

Flickr Creative Commons,

JISC Little Guide to Copyright (UK)

Search by image

To find out the origin of an image on the Internet try this:

Right click on the image
Copy the image address
Go to Google images
Click on the camera icon to Search by image

Creative Commons Licences

Building upon the Past
2 min video explaining Creative Commons (CC) by Justin Cone
Creative Commons licences explained
[Youtube video] by Process Arts, NZ, 2011
Best practice for attribution
You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. This link gives some good (and not so good) examples of attribution
Creative Commons
Creative Commons offers an alternative to full copyright and helps people legally share and use knowledge and creativity. Look out for symbols denoting Creative Commons licences.

Attribution CC BY
lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA
lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.

Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND
allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC
lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA
lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

Public Domain CC0
allows licensors to waive all rights and place a work in the public domain
Creative Commons Licences

Citing images

When including images in academic work, they should be numbered, and given a caption that identifies the artist, the title of the work (normally in italics), the date, medium, its present location (if known), its dimensions (if known): e.g. Masaccio, Madonna and Child, 1426, tempera on panel, London, National Gallery, 135.5 cm × 75 cm

Publishing Images

Images for publication in an academic journal or book:

It is likely that the publisher will require images to be at least 300 DPI’s (dots-per-inch).

In ARTstor, images that are marked ‘IAP’ (Images for Academic Publishing) are suitable. However, before using an image, it is still necessary to get permission from the copyright holder. For non-IAP images you should request the copyright holder to send a publication-quality image for publication.