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Copyright: Copyright Fee Free Resources

 

      The advantages of using free for education material include:

  1. It is free - TAFE NSW does not pay for the use of this material by teachers or content developers.
  2. Access to this material does not generally need to be restricted to students and teachers. Therefore, free for education material can be used on content repositories which are open to the public.

Note that you still need to comply with any applicable licence terms in relation to free for education material. 

Regardless of the licence or statements that no attribution is required, you should always label any content used. Follow the guidelines:

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Open Education Resources are teaching and learning resources available under legally recognised open licences. They are free for people to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute (depending on the licence type). Many utilise Creative Commons licences.

Information from Smartcopying about OER resources

Attributing Free Images

Teaching staff – all images, even no attribution required images, must be labelled in educational content. Please see the TAFE NSW Copyright Compliant Labelling guidelines for advice.

Students completing assignments - please see the relevant referencing guidelines’ image sections.

Students and staff using images for other purposes - attribute as per attribution guidelines (if any) on the image provider's website.

What are Creative Commons Licenses?

Finding Creative Commons Images on Google

  1. Enter your search term into the Google Images search bar.
  2. Search for the images you want.
  3. Once the results are displayed, click on Tools. (top right, under the search bar)
  4. Click on the drop-down menu under Usage Rights.
  5. Choose Creative Commons Licences
  6. Click on an image to see more detail and then click on Visit to confirm the images licence details.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is an international non-profit organisation that provides free licences and tools that copyright owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally. 
 

Creative Commons, Australia (2012), What are the Creative Commons licences? factsheet, accessed from: http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/244