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Google Image Search adds Creative Commons options
The terms of Creative Common licenses vary, but if you go to "advanced image search," you can choose to filter images by the reuse and modification privileges their licenses allow. If you search for Creative Commons images, Google will also throw in other images that are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation license or in the public domain. Google says it's still a user's responsibility to click through and verify that the licensing information is actually correct, but that's still a lot easier than sifting through thousands of image results yourself, looking for one you can use.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Saint Seminole said 3:56PM on 7-13-2009
I'm glad this option was added, but still frustrated by so many who believe any photo they find on the internet is free for the taking... (Maybe I only feel this way because I'm a professional photographer?)
Even recently while working at a newspaper, one of my coworkers asked, "If I find a photo on the internet, I can use it with my story, right?" Ugh.
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Aparna said 11:59PM on 7-14-2009
Well, very few folks are aware of something called Copyright. Fewer still acknowledge it. "If it is out there, then Finders Keepers" seems to be the motto.
Surprising, isn't it, that someone from print media asked you such a question! (How did you respond???)
Bond said 1:34PM on 7-19-2009
This is a great feature.
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