Images and Copyright

From APA 7th Ed. 

The license associated with the clip art or stock image determines how it should be credited.

• Sometimes the license indicates no reference or attribution is needed, in which case writers can reproduce the image without any reference, citation, or attribution in an APA Style paper.
• Other times, the license indicates that credit is required to reproduce the image, in which case writers should write an APA Style copyright attribution and reference list entry.

Follow the terms of the license associated with the image you want to reproduce. The guidelines apply regardless of whether the image costs money to purchase or is available for free. The guidelines also apply to both students and professionals and to both papers and PowerPoint presentations.

Images must be cited like all other resources. You must provide a citation if you use an image you did not create. Images should be cited in all cases, even if the image is very small or in the public domain. The citation should be accessible in the context of the image's use (within a Powerpoint presentation, on a web page, in a paper, etc.).

Image citations should include the following information at a minimum:

• Title
• Creator name
• Repository information (museum, library, or other owning institution)
• Image source (database, website, book, postcard, vendor, etc.)
• Date accessed

Licensing Rights information will help determine if attribution is needed or not. Below are the types of Creative Commons licenses for many images found on the Internet. 

In addition, the following resources provide free use of images:

Images from the library's databases.  

As a member of the Trevecca Community, you are entitled to use materials that are licensed by Waggoner Library, such as our databases. Many of these products contain images. If you need images for an assignment that will exist in a physical form or will exist in a virtual form inside Blackboard, you can freely use the copyrighted images in these databases. The subscription costs cover the licensing fees. However, if your project will exist on the free web, you may not use these images.

Images from other programs.

Images and clip art from programs such as Google Slides, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint can be used without attribution. By purchasing the program, you have purchased a license to use the clip art and images that come with the program without attribution.

Types of Creative Commons Licenses

 or CC0 1.0

CC0 1.0 means that works are not restricted by copyright and Public Domain.

CC by 2.0 means that you can show and transform other owners' images as long as you cite them correctly and indicate what changes (if any) you made to the image.

CC by 4.0 means that you can show and transform other owners' images as long as you cite them correctly and indicate what changes you made to the image; however, It is more restrictive than CC by 2.0.