Copyright in Education & The Internet in South African Law

Here are a list of websites for finding copyright free images – these images are either in the public domain or are licensed in terms of Creative Commons. With public domain images you need not acknowledge the source or the author of the images. If you’re using Creative Commons images, you need to specify the title of the image, the author and the license for that image – see the end of the post for an example of how CC licensed images should be referenced.

General images:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page

Flickr – make sure to take note of the licenses specified on each page or better yet restrict your search to exclude copyrighted images. Use sites such as Compfight and FlickrStorm to make searching for CC licensed images easier.

http://pixabay.com/ – this is a public domain search tool

http://www.alegriphotos.com

Accounting and Mathematics:

All sites listed here are free from copyright and in the public domain.

http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/

http://www.pdclipart.org/

http://www.openclipart.org

http://www.public-domain-photos.com/free-cliparts/

Physical Science:

All sites listed here are free from copyright and in the public domain.

http://www.livephysics.com/gallery/main.php?g2_page=2

http://www.livephysics.com/gallery/main.php

http://sites.google.com/site/phisica/

http://chemistrypictures.org/main.php

Life Sciences:

All sites listed here are free from copyright and in the public domain.

http://www.media.nih.gov/imagebank/index.aspx – the images here are in the public domain but you have to credit NIH, see here for their terms & conditions.

http://chemistrypictures.org/main.php – also contains biology pictures

English First and Second Language:

Bitstrips – these cartoons are under a Creative Commons license and Bit Strips have to be attributed. Fantastic site to create your own cartoons for student exercises.

History:

http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/page/Home.html?s=YfQYbi59MkW -  licensed in terms of a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License.

http://www.clipart-history.com/

http://ushistoryimages.com/ – Images from various periods of USA history.

http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/wwii-posters/ – World War II Posters.

http://www.gwpda.org/photos/greatwar.htm – World War I Image Archive.

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/photographs.html – Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?l=cc&mt=all&adv=1&w=all&q=apartheid+south+africa&m=text – flickr search for Creative Commons licensed images on a search of apartheid South Africa.

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