Why Did I Choose this Copyright?
I think copyrighting is very important in this day in age. With so many works entering the web daily, there is also the risk of someone taking those works and distorting them for personal use or to make money off of someone else’s time and effort. This is why I feel attribution is important, because it protects the creators work from being completely free game if they want to share it under some form of controlled parameters. If a person doesn’t want their works shared at all, without it first being asked of them, they might place watermarks across the picture to keep it from being used.
The copyright I selected was the CC BY-NC-ND copyright (Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives). I chose this type of copyright because it allows others to download my works and share them with others as long as they give me credit for it. I feel it is important to credit an artist for their creative works because it is their time and effort that has been poured into it. Also with this particular copyright, a person cannot change my works in any way or use them commercially. I just want to be someone’s inspiration if I can, not someone’s cash cow. If you, or someone you know is interested in making a website, but doesn’t know anything about copyrighting their works, they can read more information on Creative Commons.
So Why Not Take the Risk and “Use” Without Permission?
When building a website, it is a good idea to add so of your images to capture your audience’s attention. But what about when you use someone else’s images? If it is a picture or an image, it is important to place a caption underneath giving credit to the creator. However, once someone dies, the copyright on their works expires after 70 years. If you are unsure about how to use images on the web ethically, read more on Search Engine Journal.
On this page, I used two images that are copyright-free sources. They both came from the same web page. I was having issue finding a website for copyright free images, so I took the suggestion from someone I knew to check out ‘MorgueFiles’. From there, I searched through their catalogue of pictures. The images I chose did not have watermarks printed across them, which is a good sign the artist doesn’t mind its use. Under licensing it says one is free to adapt the work, to use this work for commercial purposes and the photo can be accompanied with other content.
