For California Library Folks - Infopeople Webinar on Finding Legally Safe Graphics for Presentations and Websites Dec 10 - noon

Finding (Legally Safe) Graphics in Presentations and Websites

http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/303/index.html

It's 9 a.m. and your deadline is today to put together your presentation or post your content to the library's blog or website. A picture of kids making paper boats would add just the right visual to your text. As an excellent online searcher, you can easily find what you need. But do you have the right to use it? Are you exposing your library to copyright liability?

This webinar will help you analyze the legal rights attached to images you find online and offline. It will walk you through safer approaches to using the pictures you need to make your content sparkle!

At the end of this presentation, participants will know how to:

• locate public domain images that are free to use
• locate creative commons licensed images and understand the conditions attached to using them
• ask for permission to use other images

Webinar: December 10, 2008
Time: 12pm-1pm
Speaker: Mary Minow

Comments

[Gail]

Thanks, you answered a lot of questions we had about using images. I couldn't type fast enough with the Potato Council question and I was curious about using text from their site, nutritional info they use to promote the potato. I could find the same info in a book or online, it's not based on their original research, but if I use the nutritional info they highlight so to speak, and don't copy word for word, do I need to reference their site?

[Mary]

Lucky for you, copyright only protects original expression, not facts. There have been many court cases in which users copy large amounts of facts, get sued, and win. So long as you're not copying protected expression (original arrangement, display etc. of the facts), you are not infringing on someone's copyright. As for attribution, that would be your call. I personally am more likely to attribute facts if they are truly compiled, collected etc. from the source (e.g. if the society did its own study).