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Newsvine Tips: Adding photos to your articles, legally

News Type: Other — Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:52 AM EDT

Photo Courtesy of Xerones, distributed under Creative Commons

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Every article deserves to be spiced up by an image or photo, but not all images are created equal.

Unless the image is your own creation or you have the explicit permission of the creator, images found on the web are property of the websites which they appear on. Because of this, it is important to find another outlet for images to add to your articles. This is where Creative Commons and Flickr become involved.

The Flickr website allows you to search the photos based on their license. In the case of Creative Commons, this includes some combination of Atrribution, Noncommercial, No Derivative Works, and Share-Alike. These define the rules in using these images for personal or commercial use. Depending on which you choose, you may only be required to give Attribution (i.e. credit) to the owner of the photo or image.

So add some color to your part of the vine, and make use of Creative Commons licensing!


An example is given at the end of this article, and was created using the following:

A [bracket] is used in place of the lesser than and greater than symbols used to code XML


[p class="copyright" align="right"]
Photo Courtesy of [a href="http://link.to.image.website"]User's name[/a]
[/p]

Please see 10 Tips for The Casual Newsviner by Sean S for some more useful tips.

Evano has a few more links for places to get your photos.

Photo Courtesy of Xerones, distributed under Creative Commons

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{"commentId":78962,"authorDomain":"dungbeetlemania"}
dungbeetlemania

Thank you, this is exactly what I have been thinking of, but I was unable to think of a satisfactory solution. Now you've shown me one!

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Reply#1 - Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:59 AM EST
{"commentId":78967,"authorDomain":"mike"}
Mike D.

Good stuff. We need to add photo captions asap so this stuff can appear right underneath the photo if you type it in.

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Reply#2 - Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:14 AM EST
{"commentId":78976,"authorDomain":"cyron"}
Cyron

Bear in mind, when Newsvine starts paying people ad revenue from their columns, I imagine that will rule out the use of non commercial images.

Also, as a flickr user myself, it would be great if people let the photographer know when they use a photo. You don't have to let them know, but it's nice if you do

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Reply#3 - Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:40 AM EST
{"commentId":78977,"authorDomain":"dungbeetlemania"}
dungbeetlemania

Thanks Mike, please do. Photo captions would be one of the most useful additions to the vine.

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    Reply#4 - Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:41 AM EST
    {"commentId":78990,"authorDomain":"danish"}
    Captain Nemo

    Yeah, I have been worrying about this too. I have heard that infringement can run up some pretty heavy bills.

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      Reply#5 - Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:02 AM EST
      {"commentId":108971,"authorDomain":"sheep"}
      evano

      Cool article, Andy. I just posted an article on pretty much the same topic where I list a bunch of other free & legal image resources besides Flickr. You might want to check it out.

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        Reply#6 - Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:05 AM EDT
        {"commentId":110899,"authorDomain":"fool"}
        Andy Lurig

        Excellent collection of links! Mine was definately a bit more quick and dirty since it was 'pre-captions' and many lacked the XML knowledge to post.

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        #6.1 - Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:51 PM EDT
        {"commentId":111060,"authorDomain":"sheep"}
        evano

        Well, as my contribution to this "mutual admiration society," let me say, that you give a much better description of the Creative Commons license than I did. I think the articles complement each other, so I've added a line with a link here. Community, community, community! :)

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        #6.2 - Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:25 PM EDT
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        {"commentId":109987,"authorDomain":"annasebestyen"}
        Anna Sebastian

        Hello, Andy, could you please add the tag 'photo' or 'photos' to the article? thanks.

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        Reply#7 - Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:55 AM EDT
        {"commentId":110894,"authorDomain":"fool"}
        Andy Lurig

        Done! Can't believe I missed that one.

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        #7.1 - Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:48 PM EDT
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