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Images, videos and plans: Images

Finding and using visual media in your research and studies

A banner with five images, from left to right - the first image is of a curved gallery wall with artworks neatly displayed in frames, a person is looking at the images. The second image features a hand holding a remote pointed at a TV that is out of focus. The third features a desk with a large piece of paper with a floor plan for a building on it, a person's hands are touching the floor plan. The fourth image is a close up of a ribbon of film. The final image features a close up of a tablet  with a dawing on it, a hand holds a stylus pen over the image. All the images have a slightly warm tone and soft focus.

Banner image sources: Pexels 12345 licensed under a CC0 Public Domain licence.

Using images in your work

Images can be easily found online and in textbooks, journals, and posters, but not all images are freely available for you to use in your own work. Copyright, image licensing and other conditions can apply, affecting whether an image can be downloaded, scanned, reused or modified.

Take caution and investigate any copyright restrictions or terms and conditions of use before using an image. This may include photographs you have taken of people. 

 

Creative Commons

You might see a Creative Commons (CC) license on a work. A CC license makes content more useable because it tells you what you can do with a work. However you should always verify that the work is under a CC license by following the link that is usually provided. Since there is no registration to use a CC license, Creative Commons has no way to determine what has and hasn't been placed under the terms of a CC license. If you are in doubt about what the license means and how you can use the work, you should contact the copyright holder directly, or try to contact the site where you found the content.

Finding images in UWA Library databases

Free-to-use images

Copyright for Students

"Study Help: Understanding Copyright" by University of South Australia is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Copyright at UWA

For more information and support see Copyright at UWA.

 

CONTENT LICENCE

 Except for logos, Canva designs, AI generated images or where otherwise indicated, content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.