[texbirds] Re: RFI regarding ornithology lectures
- From: "Judy Kestner" <jkestner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <tkeitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:57:32 -0500
I agree -- can't tell you how many times I've checked on my family blog to
discover that a photo I borrowed from the Internet has disappeared. I'm
assuming that the owner snatched it back somehow...?
Judy Kestner
Calallen (NW Corpus Christi)
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From: "David Sarkozi" <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tkeitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Anthony Flyd" <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>; <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 3:11 PM
Subject: [texbirds] Re: RFI regarding ornithology lectures
> Tim,
>
> This is absolutely not true, there is no such thing as "fair use",
> that's why you see it in quotes like that. I've been told this by two
> different intellectual property lawyers, and I can tell you that the
> copy shop here at UH goes to a lot of trouble to verify professors
> have all the authorizations for teaching packets.
>
> That doesn't mean there are not online images you can use for these
> things though, I've found the Creative Commons is an excellent source
> of photos for programs, and they provide a handy tool for searching
> for these works, http://search.creativecommons.org/ All the photos you
> see in Wikipedia are licensed under the creative commons. The tool
> lets you search different sources for photos (and audio)
>
> Many photographers are sharing their photos from places like Flickr
> and Google under the creative commons license. There are several
> levels of license, some are any use, some are non commercial only,
> some require attribution, other not, you just have to look. The search
> tool above makes it pretty easy to know you're using a photo and not
> violating a copyrighted use.
>
> Nothing creative is actually available for your use unless the owner
> explicitly says so or its copyright has expired. That's what
> photographers who publish under the creative commons license have
> done. Sticking with the creative commons ensures you won't make a
> mistake on that front.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Tim Keitt <tkeitt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Tony,
>> I rely heavily on google images for my Biology of Birds class at UT.
>> Teaching is considered "fair use" of copyrighted material. It is pretty
>> astounding the amount of imagery online these days.
>>
>> Tim Keitt
>> Austin Texas
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Anthony Hewetson
>> <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings All:
>>> I am scheduled to give a lecture on ornithology to a Master Naturalist
>>> group on 5 April and am encountering difficulties in building a
>>> PowerPoint
>>> presentation. Does anybody out there know of a good, on-line source for
>>> free, downloadable images to use in such a lecture? I intend to to one
>>> lecture on general ornithology (morphology, behavior, etc ...) and one
>>> on
>>> citizen science as it applies to ornithological research (BBS, CBC,
>>> GBBC,
>>> e-bird, etc ...) and hope to get a few more Texas birders out of this.
>>>
>>> Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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