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Social Media Copyright and Fair Use Rules to Know

Ignite Social Media

Social media teams should consider using platforms such as Flickr and CreativeCommons.org , where they can find copyright-free images with licenses for editorial and commercial use. You can use songs that are in the public domain without any restrictions. This includes videos, images, written text, and music.

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24+ Sites to Find Free Images You Would Actually Use for Your Marketing

Buffer Social

But you can find a public domain photo, use a Creative Commons image that might need attribution, or even create your own image from scratch. What is public domain? Works in the public domain are those whose copyrights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable. What is royalty free?

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Creating Great Video Without the “Shoot”

Waxing UnLyrical

Maybe the National Archives has some great public domain footage that would work well for your project. . Image: Mountainbread via Flickr, CC 2.0. You just read Creating Great Video Without the “Shoot” , originally posted on Waxing UnLyrical , published by Shonali Burke.

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Google Penalizes Copyright Infringers: Are You At Risk?

ProBlogger

I’ve found many of my articles published on other websites without my permission. I published an article titled Top 10 deadliest air crashes in the last 10 years on my own blog. You can also use material that’s available in the public domain. You can learn more about the public domain here.

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Like Stuff On Facebook? Say Cheese, You're An Ad!

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Asthma Helper via Flickr, CC 2.0 Doesn’t it call to mind the Flickr-Virgin Mobile brouhaha from a few years ago? Public domain or not? Matt felt that since anything we post is in the “public domain,&# it’s fair game. What we post on Facebook is not in the public domain.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Getting Links AND Content from Flickr (Search Engine Land): Using Flickr to build content isn’t so hard once you get inspiration from this article which features a case study and suggested scenarios that you can use Flickr with to help. Some really great public domain image search tools are reviewed in this article.

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A Visual Guide to Finding Free Images Online – [INFOGRAPHIC]

Your Escape From 9 to 5

Public Domain Archive – Publish images weekly, they have both modern and vintage images. Public Domain archive is a collection of free images around the web curated by bloggers. Flickr Creative Commons – Flikr has some of the most creative and vibrant pics. Free Images – I used their images at the start.