Follow these simple concepts:
Materials in the “Public Domain” are those in which no person, government or organization has any proprietary interest such as a copyright or license.
Unless specifically noted, assume something is copyrighted or licensed
Remember to cite copyrighted/licensed sources for any text, videos, music or images you use
Types of media and permissible amounts you can use:
Motion media, e.g., movies, film clips, excerpts from television shows, etc.:
Up to 10 percent of the total or three minutes, whichever is less.
Text material:
Up to 10 percent of the total or 1,000 words, whichever is less.
Poems: An entire poem of less than 250 words may be used; no more than three poems by one poet or five poems by different authors in an anthology. For poems exceeding 250 words, 250 words should be used but no more than three excerpts from one poet or five excerpts from different poets in the same work.
Music, lyrics, and music video:
Up to 10 percent of the work
No more than 30 seconds of the music or lyrics from an individual musical work.
Illustrations or photographs:
No more than five images from one artist or photographer.
No more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less, from a collection.
Numerical data sets:
Up to 10 percent or 2,500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less, from a copyrighted database or data table.
Sources: Copyright and Fair Use in the UMUC Online or Face-to-Face Classroom, University of Maryland University College, 2012, downloaded on August 20, 2012 from: https://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/copyright.cfm#multimedia_students; Icons from Open Clip Art Library at https://openclipart.org/
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Use Tips:
Highlight the source you would like to search e.g. YouTube
Do not assume that the results displayed in this search are free of copyright or licenesed for open use
Watch for links and text that tell you how an image may be used or shared
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries have quite a few databases that have images, music and video available for you to use (within copyright guidelines) in your presentations and papers. Here are some of them:
Note: All content previously hosted on Artstor is now available on the JSTOR platform.
Images of visual media from the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. (Images)
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