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Category - Media

Topic - Copyright

Issue - Crediting images

Tiptoid -

The other day, Adi and I were looking for photo images from the Internet for our Health project. Adi immediately clicked on Google for pictures of some NFL players. When he found the ones we wanted, he started to copy and paste them into a Word document. He then went to www.NFL.com and did the same thing with the pictures from that site.

I asked Adi if it was legal to do what he was doing - to just take those pictures and use them without citing the source. He said he didn't know. So we asked Mr. Hassett, our school librarian, about it, and he told us this about copyright law, and how to credit images.

Make sure the images you want to use are available (for instance, check if there is a statement attached to the image saying, “Not to be copied or reproduced.”)
Find out who is the owner/creator of the image, and reference this name.
Cite the website. Make sure you include all the parts of the web address. This gives credit to the producer/owner.

Adi and I followed these procedures, which ensured that everything was okay and legal to use.

Glossary -

cite - bibliography reference

copyright - sole right to a literary or artistic work (intellectual property)

credit – to give ownership and recognition to the owner of the borrowed literary or artistic work (intellectual property)

Find Out More - www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/student.htm

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Submitted by - Kasey Tan and Adi Hajrovic

Site Manager - Chris Ricci

January 2007