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Important information for
teachers on copyright and the use of clip art images
It has come to our attention that a district
within the state was recently fined $1,000 for the
unauthorized use of a stock photo on their district Web
site. As many of you maintain individual classroom/teacher
Web pages, we would like to take this opportunity to remind
you that all stock photo images have individual “terms of
usage” that you need to be aware of prior to posting
anything to your site.
A “stock” photo is any photograph taken by
an outside company and provided to users for a set price and
for an agreed upon usage. Example companies include Getty
Images, iStock Photo, and Clipart.com. These Web sites are
not to be used to download images for your teacher Web
pages.
There are, however, several Web sites that are
appropriate to use as sources of images for your teacher
pages, including:
Microsoft Office Clip Art may also be used
on your Web pages, as long as you are searching for images
on your own computer or school computers, which have
licensed software. Please do not download images from the
Microsoft Office Web site. They are not approved for our use
on Web pages. The official “Use of Microsoft Copyrighted
Content” agreement posted to the Microsoft Web site does
allow for the use of images obtained from the site in
printed publications, such as a student project or building
newsletter.
Should you have images from any of the above
mentioned “prohibited” sites posted on your teacher Web
pages, you will need to delete them from your pages
immediately. In addition, if you do not know where an image
is from, it is better to be safe than sorry—so please remove
any such images from your Web pages and replace them with
images from appropriate sites, if desired.
Please take some time to look through
your teacher Web pages and delete any images that you do not
have rights to, and credit all images for which you do have
rights should the “terms of usage” require you to do so.
Thank you, in advance, for your cooperation.
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