Many new bloggers commit the mistake of copying and pasting
images in their posts from Google images without knowing that this can cause
trouble later on. They think that my fellow blogger did it so it’s okay to do
so but if most of us are doing it that does not make it right. You as a blogger
need to be sure that what you are doing is not breaking any law.
In fact Google webmaster guidelines say the same
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| Above image is a copyright-free image |
If u follow below guidelines you will sure shot avoid the
trouble of ever getting into copyrights and all. But before that let me tell
you what this all copyright stuff really is.
There are basically six things in copyright jargon that you
need to know but you can skip all this if you want to-
1)
Attribution:
attribution is where you acknowledge the author of the work. Most often it
requires you to include the name of the person with the © symbol in front of
it. Also you need to put a link back to the source of the image which could be
the blog of the person you copied the image from.
2)
Copyright:
copyright is the exclusive legal right, given to an originator to print,
publish, perform, film or record literary, artistic or musical material and to
authorize others to do so.
3)
Creative commons: creative commons is a
non-profit organization that lets you share and use creativity and knowledge through
free legal tools. Their free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple,
standardized way to give the public permission to share and use creative work
according to conditions of your choice.
4)
Intellectual property: Intellectual Property is
a work that is the result of creativity, such as a photo or a design, to which
one has rights for. Once it is created it is protected under the copyright law.
5)
Licensing: Licensing is to grant a license to
permit the use of something or to allow an activity to take place. To our post
it means permitting the use of an image in a blog post.
6)
Public domain: Public Domain is the state of
being available to the public as a whole, and therefore the content or image is
not subject to copyright.
This post boils down to one simple one thing:
Where can I get the images to use in my post without
accidently committing copyright infringement?
Well you just missed the point; the answer is just above
this question. Yeah it is just above. Yes you got it now-Public domains. You won’t believe there are tons of images
available that you can use and are allowed to use by Google too.
So here is a list of websites that I suggest you to bookmark
so that you can quickly copy paste images into your posts.
Do you know about any other free domain that you want to
tell us about? Let us know in the comments below.
