November 06, 2005

ICT Support
  • tech.life@school | Get free images legally via copyleft
  • tech.life@school Get free images legally via copyleft. Joyce Kasman Valenza. Philly.com. Most students are aware that they can find a huge number of images using Google's remarkable Image Search. But the fact that an image is available to us on the Web doesn't really give us the right to copy it and use it indiscriminately. … Most Web images are copyrighted and licensed. New copyright-friendly archives are recognizing and responding to these educational needs while they remove many of the legal and ethical thorns. .... Enter the new concept of copyleft, a license that allows creators to maintain a copyright while allowing users the right to reuse, reproduce and change software or files. In the spirit of the open-source movement, a growing number of new sites encourage the sharing of photographs, clip art and other illustrations. …

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