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.
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.
For more information and support see Copyright at UWA.
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