Otago Polytechnic/OER/Mini case study 2

Case Study 2: Photographing a Copyrighted Work


Jane Smith is looking for an image for a slide in her Powerpoint lecture on 20th Century American literature. Her lecture explores how books published long ago retain their relevance to modern readers. As luck would have it she finds an example that illustrates this point beautifully – a photograph showing a page from her favourite book ‘A Girl of the Limberlost’ in both book and e-book form:

Jane wants to use the image, so checks the license on the image and finds the photographer has given the photograph an open license – specifically the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-SA.