Some of you may or may not know, that using images from most places on the Internet is an infringement of the owners copyright. As teachers we have a few choices:
1. Go and take photographs that are our own images. This can be difficult when making a Rainforest movie, especially on my position on the pay scale.
2. We can use copyright free images or ask (and get permission) to use. You must also give credit to the owner generally on the same page as that image. If the owner of the images does not reply then more than likely using them will be illegal. Indeed, legislation of educational use of these images is complex and well...frustrating.
3. You can pay to use images.
Ian Murray at Geographyphotos has the answer excellent value and no copyright worries. He has a range of 4,500 images (some I took..although not many).
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If we all used geographyphotos to make our movies then I would only have to worry about all the copyright issues for the music used. Which may well reduce my prison sentence when I am caught!
