{"id":8311,"date":"2013-06-01T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=8311"},"modified":"2015-08-11T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T22:54:51","slug":"royalty-free-images-arent-free-finding-and-using-photos-to-use-without-getting-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/01\/royalty-free-images-arent-free-finding-and-using-photos-to-use-without-getting-sued\/","title":{"rendered":"Royalty Free Images Aren’t Free: Finding and Using Photos to Use Without Getting Sued"},"content":{"rendered":"

H<\/span>ave I ever mentioned that I won our school district’s speech competition when I was in Grade 7? I have always loved public speaking. I’ve been really lucky in the last few months in that I’ve had a terrific number of opportunities to do what I call my “blog and pony” show to internal GoC audiences, talking about how we’re using social media to connect with Canadians in a government context at work, but this opportunity was especially exciting for me. I had the great honour today of speaking at the Social Capital Ottawa <\/a>conference on a topic very dear to my heart: how to find, use and share photos online without getting sued<\/a>. (Remember my infographic<\/a>?) I love this topic because it’s at the intersection of a whole whack of things I’m passionate about: social media, blogging, sharing and photography.<\/p>\n

This whole experience has been a HUGE learning curve for me – and I thought I was pretty knowledgeable when I proposed the topic! I learned SO MUCH about copyright and how not to violate it. Did you know, for example, that the DMCA does not necessarily apply in Canada? Or that “fair use” is an American concept and different from our Canadian “fair dealings”? Or that “royalty free” does not mean “free”? (Okay, I knew that last one, but I didn’t know it eight years ago when I started blogging.)<\/p>\n

But I learned some other really neat stuff, too – like how to build a Powerpoint deck that doesn’t have 800 words on every slide (unlike almost every Government of Canada internal “deck” I have ever seen), and how to share a presentation on slideshare, and how to administer a quiz and record the results in real time using Google docs, and how to use storify to capture a story on Twitter. And now I’m going to wrap it all up into one big bundle and blurt it out here for your adoration.
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\nThis is my presentation from slideshare<\/a>. I wanted to include enough information on the slides so that you’d be able to get the important bits without actually attending my presentation at SoCapOtt. But there’s enough extra stuff that if you would like to know more, I’m happy to bring the presentation live to you or discuss any of the finer points should you have any questions!<\/p>\n