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From bloggers, to web designers, to people who work with offline content, finding photos that can be freely used online, without fear of copyright issues, is a shared problem. The trouble with randomly searching for photos from Flickr, Google or other sources is that the results often give you little information about rights and copyrights beyond the standard warning that copyrights may apply. However, there are a few image search engines that find photos on Flickr, and allow you to search for ones that won't embroil you in copyright problems. They search for Creative Commons-licensed photos, and you can sort by types of Creative Commons licenses. Here are the three ways to find free photos on Flickr, for open use, that I like.

If you've spent much time blogging or working in any form of electronic publishing, you've probably run into the sticky issue of copyrights on images. One wants to believe that copying and pasting any image from any web page is perfectly fine, but you can get in a heap of trouble if you ignore copyrights. Fortunately, among the several types of licenses for images that Creative Commons makes available, you can find ones that allow for free, open use of images found in large libraries. In this post, I'll cover two easy ways to do this with the free photo sharing service Flickr.