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Finding "Legal" Images for Your Project

Did you know that doing a search for images on Google and using whatever you find might not be legal? It's true! The Google image search will go out and find any images that are tagged with the words you used to search. Many of these images are copyrighted and not really legal for you to use.

There are ways, however, to find images that you can use without getting into any trouble.

Creative Commons Search 1. Go to http://search.creativecommons.org 2. Mark the two check boxes to the right of the search button. This tells the computer to look for images that you can legally use in your projects. 3. Enter the keywords that you want to search for and click "search." 4. You can toggle between the different search engines (google, yahoo, flickr, blip.tv, owl, and spinxpress) to look for images that you would like to use in your project. 5. Keep track of the places that you find your images. The best way to do this is to keep a document with all of the websites where the photos were located.