Copyright & Image Sources for Digital Collage - ARTS 104 | Visual Concepts through Digital Media - Collins Memorial Library at University of Puget Sound

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Fair Use and Making Art

Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts is based on a consensus of professionals in the visual arts who use copyrighted images, texts, and other materials in their creative and scholarly work and who, through discussion groups, identified best practices for using such materials.
(FAQ) Fair Use Frequently Asked Questions
Compiled by the College Art Association.
Graphic Artists Guild: Fair Use or Infringement?
Discussion of fair use and collage art.

For more details on Fair Use see our library guide on copyright & fair use.

Image Sources for Collage

The Public Domain Review
Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.
Creative Commons Image Search
Search Europeana, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, and Rijksmuseum, for images that can be reused under a creative commons licensed.
Internet Archive Magazine Rack
The Magazine Rack is a collection of digitized magazines and monthly publications.
Old Book Illustrations
High-resolutions of scans from old books.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Search manuscripts, maps, photographs, sheet music, lithographs, postcards, and other images from NYPL's collections. Includes high resolution and freely reusable images of over 180,000 items in the public domain. These images can be sorted by century, color, genre, or library collection.