Keir Thomas explains the rules of copyright and how to legally find and use free images, audio and movie files for your projects
To paraphrase the Nicole Kidman in the movie To Die For, 'You aren't really anybody if you're not on the internet.'
The days of people wanting their own homepage have perhaps disappeared down the drainpipe of history, but they've been replaced by a desire to create things bigger in scope - a YouTube video, perhaps, or a PDF offered for download. You might wonder where you can find pictures, music and video clips to use to give everything a bit more pizazz. These are plentiful across the internet, of course, but whether you can freely use them is another matter.
You need to consider copyright and the licensing terms of the item. If you ignore these basic hurdles you can very easily find yourself taking a nasty fall.
In other words, unless you know how copyright and licensing works, then you won't know what's legal for you to use in your creations. So excuse us if in this feature we first enroll you in a brief copyright lesson. Don't worry - we keep it simple.
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