- Hey, everybody. In this video, I'm going to show you how to use Google Image Search to find an image that you can use without violating any copyright laws to use in some project that you're working on, so that you don't have to worry about somebody telling you, hey, you have to take this project down because you used an image that you weren't allowed to use legally. So let's say you're trying to find an image of a bear. I just picked a bear at random here. So I searched for "bear." 

I'm going to go to Images. I get all these great images of bears here, but most of these, I can't use, right? I can't use this image from The Guardian. I don't have rights to that image, or this one from nps.gov. I don't have rights to that image. 

So what you can do is you can go to Tools, go to Usage Rights, click that, and then click Creative Commons Licenses. And that's going to eliminate all the images that you're not allowed to use, and so you'll be left with a bunch of options here. Now, the best ones to use are going to be the Wikipedia or wikimedia.org, from commons.wikimedia.org. Any image from there is in the Creative Commons domain, and so it's totally fine for you to use that. 

So if you want to use that, you can click on the image. And click on it here. I can right click, and I can copy the image. I can save the image. I can paste it into my project. 

But you also need to cite the image. So if I click on it again, it'll take me here-- and you can see the image right here. And like I said, it's not OK just to use this. You've got to cite your source and give credit to the person who took this image. So what you can do is you can scroll down here, and it'll give you some licensing information. 

You're free to share this. You're free to remix or adapt the work in some way, which is what you probably want to do if you're using in some project, under the following conditions-- you have to attribute it, so you have to give credit and provide a link to the license. And if any changes were made, you do so in a reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. So you can't say, like, OK, the person who made this image or took this photo endorses my project, but you need to give them credit that you're using their work. And if you do change it, make sure it's under the same license here. 

So I can use this image. And what I want to do is go to "use this file on the web." So I'll click that. And then to attribute it, it'll give me what I need to use to attribute it here in this line, right here. So I can right-click that, copy it, and then I can paste that into whatever project I'm working on to give credit to the author here. It'll give a link to the license to get the license information, and it says I got it from Wikimedia Commons. 

So that's how I would use that information for my citation for this. And I usually provide a link to the actual image on Wikimedia Commons as well. So I would also paste that link in, just to be safe and make it clear where I got it. 

Now, there's other places where you might find something, such as the one from Pixabay right here. And we've got to be careful. Just because it shows up here doesn't mean for sure that we have the rights to use it. It just means that according to Google Search, we have rights to use it. But we need to actually verify and check. 

So I can click on this image here from Pixabay, and I can double check. Do I have rights to use this? So I need to find somewhere on the website where it tells me. Well, if you look here, it says "Pixabay license, free for commercial use, no attribution required." So I could use this image. I don't have to attribute it. I could, but I don't have to. And the reason that Pixabay is doing this is because they want you to get a subscription and use lots of other images and stuff, so they give away some for free. 

But the moral of the story here, though, is you need to actually go to the website and see what the license says. Do you have the rights to use or not? And if so, then you can use that image in the project that you're working on. All right. I hope this was helpful in showing you how to use Google Image Search to figure out what images you're allowed to use in your creative work. All right. Go make something cool. Thanks.