• Copyright exists in all images such as photographs, paintings, drawings, cartoons, graphs, diagrams, etc.
• Copyright also exists in images made available to the public on the internet.
• You can use images for research or private study and for teaching purposes as long as only one copy is made.
• Under the CLNZ licence you can copy the whole image published in a hardcopy work as long as it is embedded in the text of a larger work and copied as part of the 10% from a book or single article from a journal.
• Under the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (NZ Legislation: Acts website) you are permitted to copy an image only if it is embedded in the text of a larger work and is part of the 3% or 3 pages that can be copied.
• You cannot copy an image and reproduce it without context or attribution.

It is recommended that, in order to use an image that you have not created yourself for a UC publication (brochure, poster, course reader, handout, etc) or for a thesis, you must:

• Get permission from the “author” – the photographer, artist, cartoonist, etc.
• fully acknowledge and properly cite the item.
• Keep a record of correspondence to demonstrate that permission has been given.

Free/Public Domain Images

One of the best things you can do when wanting to use images is limit your search to images which have been made available with a Creative Commons licence or which have no licence on them e.g. the copyright has expired and the image is now free for use in the Public Domain

Some free image sites below: