Libraries: Visual Resources Scholes Library: Citing Images / Copyright and Fair Use

Links for Chicago Style Citation Guides

Chicago Style Purdue Owl, Resource for viewing examples of citations in the Chicago Manual of Style format.

The Chicago Manual of Style Website for questions regarding citations using the Chicago Manual of Style. A copy of the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed) is kept at the reference desk.

Copyright & Creative Commons

Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.
CC Website.
Creative Commons Licenses
Create a Creative Commons (CC) licenses for your work.
United States Copyright Office
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries”
(U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8)

Copyright and Fair Use

Digital Image Rights Computator
The Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC) program is intended to assist the user in assessing the intellectual property status of a specific image documenting a work of art, a designed object, or a portion of the built environment. Understanding the presence or absence of rights in the various aspects of a given image will allow the user to make informed decisions regarding the intended educational uses of that image. DIRC website.

Examples of Image Citations useing the Chicago Manual of Style

Work of art found in an image database:

Bibliography:

Botticelli, Sandro. Birth of Venus. c. 1482. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Available from: Artstor. http://www. artstor.org (accessed January 3, 2008)

lWork of art found in a book:

Bibliography:

Duveneck, Frank. Whistling Boy. 1872. Cincinnati Art Museum. Unsuspected Genius: the Art and Life of Frank Duveneck. By Robert Neuhaus. San Francisco : Bedford Press, 1987, 227.

lWork of art found on a Web site:

Bibibliography:

Duveneck, Frank. Whistling Boy. 1872. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, http://cincinnatiartmuseum.stores.

yahoo.net/frduwhboy.html,

(accessed February 7, 2008).

Copyright Blogs

What is Fair Use by Peter Friedman
This blog is an ongoing exploration of issues related to copyright and fair use in our contemporary digital culture. The blog began and continued through April 2008 as a class project in Peter Friedman’s Legal Analysis & Writing classes at Case Western Reserve University of Law during the spring 2008 semester. Peter Friedman