THEA Costumes: Finding Images

Attribution. You let people copy, distribute, display, perform, and remix your copyrighted work, as long as they give you credit the way you request. All CC licenses contain this property.

NonCommercial. You let people copy, distribute, display, perform, and remix your work for non-commercial purposes only. If they want to use your work for commercial purposes, they must contact you for permission.

ShareAlike. You let people create remixes and derivative works based on your creative work, as long as they only distribute them under the same Creative Commons license that your original work was published under.

NoDerivatives. You let people copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work — not make derivative works based on it. If they want to alter, transform, build upon, or remix your work, they must contact you for permission.

Flickr - A social networking site where Creative Commons photos can easily be found. Here is an easy to read guide about using Flickr. 

 Find Creative Commons images in Flickr Tutorial (2:14)

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Google Images - Another image search engine.  Use the Advanced search for finding copyright-free images. Harder to make the CC determination here.

Yahoo Images - Yahoo now owns Flickr but retains its own search engine for finding CC images.

Wikimedia Commons - Rather unorganized, but has offers unique CC materials, which are also used in Wikipedia.

Library of Congress - Holds a wealth of images and photos of  historical significance.  Read this page for more information about using LOC prints and images.

The Commons - A gathering of the world's public photography archives, a cooperative effort between Flickr and the Library of Congress.

Slideshare -  A source for presentation slides done by others and then shared. Some presentations are from academia, the business world and students for assignments.  While the slides can't be copied directly, you can find images you like then locate them using their source information.

ARTSOR and EBSCOhost databases offer thousands of quality, high resolution images.  The images from these sites are only for educational or research purposes.  The images cannot be re-used on unrestricted internet sites.

Art Full Text - Articles and art work.

EBSCO Databases - EBSCO is a vendor of many of the GALILEO databases, including Academic Search Complete - Image Collection.  Most of the EBSCO databases provide photos and other images.