- ALWAYS credit the source of your images.
- Find out if the owner/creator of an image states how their image can be used, if possible.
- Whenever possible, ask the copyright holder for permission and keep a record of this correspondence.
Under Fair Use Guidelines, you may...
- Use images in course assignments such as a term paper, thesis or poster as per their degree fulfillment requirements.
- Publicly display images incorporated in academic work when association with courses in which they are enrolled.
- Retain work in personal portfolios for use in graduate school or employment applications, for example.
and you may not...
- Publish images in any work in analog or digital form that do not have proper copyright clearance. When in doubt, consult the Four Factors of Fair Use.
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Information above used with permission from the Colgate Visual Resources Library.