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Open Community Case Study – American Library Association

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Community: American Library Association. The American Library Association (ALA) is the oldest and largest library association in the world. Their Story: Like many large national associations, the American Library Association has struggled with a “digital image problem” in the last decade. It’s about curiosity.

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15 Places to Find Free Images for Your Blog

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The official Creative Commons website lets users search websites for free-to-use images from a variety of sources, including Google Images, Flickr and the Wikimedia Commons. Its library is currently over 400,000 images strong and growing daily! Wikimedia Commons. The Open Clip Art Library. Creative Commons Search.

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Open Community Case Study – Empowering the Periphery

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Community: American Library Association. The American Library Association (ALA) is the oldest and largest library association in the world. Their Story: Like many large national associations, the American Library Association has struggled with a “digital image problem” in the last decade. It’s about curiosity.

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Common Creativity: Understanding the Rules and Rights Around “Free” Images on the Web

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Thanks to sites like Flickr, morgueFile, Wikimedia, and Pixabay (just to name a few), thousands of free images are at your fingertips. There are six basic licenses within the Creative Commons library, linked together with one common thread: proper credit, or attribution, must be given to the original creator. The licenses.

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Getty Images vs Creative Commons and Privacy: What Bloggers Need to Know

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Getty Images recently announced a new image embed feature that allows bloggers (and others) to access and use their vast library of images for non-commercial purposes. Wikimedia Commons. This is a guest post written by Simon Schmid of iubenda. How to choose Creative Commons licensed images for your posts. Google Search.

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

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Wikimedia Commons – Collection of over 26 million image files. Death to the Stock Photo – You can get access to the complete library for $15 per month or get free image packs emailed to you monthly. Pexels – Has made things easy by using Creative Commons Zero (CC0). GettyImages – 50 million images that are embeddable.