Activity – Word 4: Inserting graphics in Word
Inserting graphics in Word
[This section should take you around 60 minutes to complete]
In university and professional settings, when you find information or other resources online that you want to use in your own work, you must ensure that you have permission to use those resources. You must also acknowledge any resources that you use.
This section focuses on images and introduces you to the concept of Public Domain and Creative Commons licensed works. You will use search techniques to find and save a selection of these ‘free to use and share’ images. You will learn how to construct an attribution to acknowledge the creator of a work that you wish to use in your own work.
Copyright
You have more than likely heard of the term ‘copyright’ and understand that this is a law that protects the ownership of things created by individuals, a group of people, or an organisation.
There are billions of images, sound files, text items and videos online. The copyright of each of these works belongs to the person or group that created or assembled the work.
Copyright law means that we cannot just take what we want from the web and use it for our own purposes. We must seek permission from the creator of the work.
| © | This symbol is used to declare that a work is copyright protected. If this symbol is not displayed, it does not mean that the work is free to use. Copyright law prevails unless the author provides specific information to state otherwise. |
There is material on the web that is not copyrighted which we can freely access but how do we know what this material is, and where do we find it? How do we figure out what we can and cannot use without breaking the law? What exactly is free to use and share? A simple way to find materials online that are free to use and share is to limit your web searches to ‘Creative Commons’ licensed or Public Domain works.
Creative Commons Licences
The Creative Commons ‘method’ is a system of license conditions that can be placed on created works (music, images, videos, and text, for example) to inform the public (you) on how those works can be used.
Downloads by Creative Commons CC0