Community Development

As explained on the Fair Use website created by the K-State Libraries' Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship, "Fair Use is an exemption to copyright law that allows the use of copyrighted works without permission or payment of fees in order to encourage teaching, learning and scholarship. However, a fair use determination must be made for each intended use, and the answer may still be vague or murky." This quotation was taken from the following link: 

Reminders

• As with text-based information, always cite images that you use.
• You must cite images even if an image comes from the public domain, is licensed by Creative Commons, or if you have determined that it is a fair use. If you did not make the image, you must cite it and properly credit the image creator.
• It is also important to cite images you make to rule out questions of their origin (to give yourself credit, in anticipation of the question, "Is this your work?").
• When considering whether or not you should use an image in your project, completing the Fair Use Checklist can help you assess whether your intended use could be considered a fair use.
• Look for a copyright notice (even for government resources), and for phrases such as: 
  • "Copyright"
  • "License restrictions"
  • "More details"
  • "Permitted use"
  • "Some rights reserved"

For Photographs That You Take

• Taking a photo of a place?  
  • Ask permission before you photograph on private property such as a place of business or within a campus building.
• Taking a photo of a person/people? -- If you intend to utilize images in your work, consider securing their permission (in writing), even for friends. You might also:
  • Consider posing for your own photos (as an individual or group)
  • Consider asking friends or classmates to assist in staging photos
  • For people who are recognizable in the photos you take, letting them know: 
    • that they are being photographed, 
    • why they're being photographed,
    • and for what purpose(s),
    • and how their image will be used
• Create citations for images you make citing yourself as the artist/creator

Requesting Permission from Others

When making a request it is important to include:

• What you are requesting to use (be specific; include URLs when relevant),
• How you propose to use it,
• For what audience (include the course name, instructor name and basic assignment parameters),
• An indication of time (i.e., will it be used only for this one assignment, for this one semester, or for multiple assignments?)
• Be as specific as possible in your request and document both the request you send and any reply you receive

See also K-State's advice for Using Copyrighted Works. This pages includes information on public domain, fair use, requesting permissions, and Creative Commons licenses.

The examples presented on each tab of the box below are presented in pairs because a proper image citation has two parts.

The first part, the "Fig.", is the sample image caption. Captions are brief and provide enough information that the reader would easily be able to match the caption to the full citation.  

• Two caption samples are provided for each because you might wish to make some captions longer and more descriptive.  
  • You also have the option to keep them very brief and only acknowledge the name of the photographer and date.  
  • What you do depends on what best suits your purposes.  
• The captions are integrated into the design of the brochure and each caption should be placed near the image that it references.  
• The caption is also an opportunity to explain something about a photograph that is not captured by the citation information (see the "Fig. 5." and "Figure 5." examples on the Wikimedia tab).  
• If the date of image creation is not provided, you can use "n.d." in place of a date (meaning "no date"). 

The second part, the "Figure", is the sample citation that would appear in a list of references or in a bibliography.  

• The citations fully describe the image and provide all of the detail necessary for the reader to find exactly where you found the image.  
• For all of the following examples, you can follow the link provided to see the original image and how the details provided on each website came together to create the caption and citation.