Public domain image found using Pixabay We often want to put some nice or useful images into our presentations, posters, research reports or on social media. Here's a few places and ways of finding images you can use without requesting permission from the copyright holder. First Some Definitions... Public Domain = Copyright free, i.e. images that would once have belonged to the creator/copyright holder but are now old enough that copyright no longer applies, or the creator has chosen to make copyright free. Creative Commons = Creative Commons Licenses - a set of easy to understand copyright licenses that allow people to share work (such as images) in a way that makes it clear whether you can re-use the work. An Example of a Creative Commons License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License . If you saw the above license attached to an image then you would know that you can share and adapt the image in, any way a
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