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July 8, 2009

Usage Rights Options in Google Image Search

Last month, I mentioned that Google Image Search is about to add some options that let you filter images licensed using Creative Commons. The options have been added to the advanced search page, where you can choose between images that you are allowed to reuse, images that can be modified or used commercially.


Google Image Search is the first important image search engine that has this feature, since Yahoo Image Search only supports Flickr images. If you want to illustrate your web pages or your documents with images from the web, choose one of the four filters from the advanced search page, find the licensing terms and try to respect them.

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  1. AnonymousJuly 8, 2009 at 3:49 PM

    As of today's date, it's still not a feature you can access...

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  2. AnonymousJuly 8, 2009 at 4:02 PM

    Anonymous that´s only accessible on google.com not on local domains.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 8, 2009 at 11:09 PM

    Sounds great - where does the information used in the filter come from? Does it have to be within the file? Is this standardized?

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  4. Alex ChituJuly 8, 2009 at 11:32 PM

    @therufus:

    That's an excellent question. Apparently, you need to use RDF code in your web pages and that's the reason why the images posted on this blog aren't included when you select a CC license in Google Image Search. The Creative Commons filter from Google web search only requires a link to a license marked using rel="license".

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  5. Alex ChituJuly 8, 2009 at 11:47 PM

    An example of accepted RDF code for Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License:

    <!--/Creative Commons License-->

    <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#">


    <Work rdf:about="">
    <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/" />
    <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
    </Work>
    <License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/">
    <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"/>
    <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"/>
    <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"/>
    <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"/>
    <prohibits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse"/>
    </License>

    </rdf:RDF>

    -->

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  6. Adam Malcontenti-WilsonJuly 9, 2009 at 12:25 AM

    Shouldn't it try and automatically recognize phrases such as "This work is licensed under a _________ licence" such as that shown in the screen shot?

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  7. Philipp LenssenJuly 9, 2009 at 12:58 AM

    Adam, any commenter on this blog could add the sentence
    "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license"
    (like I just did)...

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  8. AnonymousJuly 16, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    @Philipp & Adam
    Maybe in the next iteration. But even using RDFs can give you mistakes. If you really want to follow the law, you need to double check the images yourself.

    Creative Commons has had a search for a while which is fantastic!

    search.creativecommons.org

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