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Several of you have asked for more guidance on how to find images you may legally use on your blog.

Here are some ideas:

• Search the Web for “public domain images“
• Wikipedia maintains pages (intended for use by Wikipedia authors) on public domain images and free images (no, I don’t know exactly what the difference is - presumably the idea behind “free” images is that you should give credit while you don’t need to do this for “public domain,” but I suspect the distinction is artificial at best).
• You can use some Creative Commons-licensed images posted to Flickr. My friend Amy Gahran provided a how-to on the E-Media Tidbits blog.
• istockphoto.com doesn’t have free images, but they’re very cheap — $1 or $2 for the size you might want to use on your blog

Posted by: Rich Gordon

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