June 06, 2025

Copyright, Fair Use, and Scholarly Communications; File Management

Copyright, Fair Use, and Scholarly Communications

Pre-Session

Spend a little time exploring images and/or audio files of interest to you in any of the repositories listed below under “Sources for Free Images.” For tomorrow, identify 2-4 items whose rights statements are different from each other, and bring their links to class. Look in the item’s metadata for their rights statements. To find rights statements on the more restrictive end of the spectrum, look in OpenVerse or Curationist for items from the 21st century or the later 20th, or browse the Noun Project.

If you prefer, feel free to search for examples from the digital collections of your favorite librar(ies) or museum(s), instead of the from the repositories listed below.

Resources

Sources for Free Images

Public Domain

Public Domain Image Archive (Their instagram account is also fantastic!)
Free to Use and Reuse Sets from the Library of Congress
Public Domain Collections from New York Public Library

Rights Vary: Check the Rights Statement or License

OpenVerse collects items with Creative Commons licenses from around the web. Includes audio files and images.
Curationist searches across the collections of multiple libraries and museums
Wikimedia Commons
Noun Project

Licenses

Tools and resources for saving web content

After the session

TEXT

Reflection post.
Review pre-session work for Monday.

File Management

Link to slide deck from the session: SummerDHFellow_2025_FileManagement.pdf

Additional resources

From Lencia and the Research Data and Open Scholarship team:

Contact open-scholarship@cornell.edu with questions about copyright questions!
Command Line Notebook, created by Lencia McKee and Dianne Dietrich
Research Data Management guides, Cornell Data Services