Re: photos for web

We've built a fairly sizable (7,000+ images) collection of
campus-related photos in Public Affairs, which are available to other UC
Berkeley offices for non-commercial use. (I've already told Susan that
they'll be of little use to her because, being photos of people, places
and activities at Berkeley -- which has no med school -- they don't
include photos of doctors and other medical personnel.) But we don't
make this archive publicly accessible via the web because of copyright
issues; many of the photos in our collection are by freelance
photographers, and we don't have the automatic right to redistribute
their images to third parties. But we are willing to respond to requests
from campus departments for images of specific subjects or themes
(please send such requests to publicaffairs@berkeley.edu), or to have
you come by our office to trawl through the complete collection.

We'd love to have more photos to add to that central pool, particularly
photos of teaching and research. Please drop me a note or give me a call
if you or your department have photos you would be willing to add to the
collection (and for which you have redistribution rights).

We're also working on building a smaller archive of most-requested
campus images, using photos to which we own the copyright. Our hope is
to have that archive available on the web by later this summer.

~ Steve

Steve McConnell
Web news editor, UC Berkeley
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Monica Friedlander wrote:

> I know there are plenty of resources out there, and some of your
> suggestion are excellent. I already bookmarked them.
>
> But like Susan, I'm also constantly on the lookout for good
> photography and I'm very frustrated that an institution as large as
> Cal doesn't seem to have a pool of photos for staff to use. I don't
> know if other universities do or if my expectations are off the charts
> and laughable. But I come from a smaller place but where we had far
> better resources to draw on. I was sure finding a photo would not be a
> problem here. Whoa!
>
> We're all in the same boat -- trying to promote Cal. Why do we have to
> keep reinventing the wheel? Or go out to buy boring stock photos of
> non-Cal students when there must be thousands and thousands of images
> of our own students/teachers/classrooms etc etc ... but we can't find
> them.
>
> If no such resource is available, I wonder if there's some way to
> start organizing one. I'm quite new here (to my job, I mean, not to
> Berkeley!) so I don't know the cast of characters very well. But I'm
> sure there must be photographers and communications people everywhere
> who could be persuaded to pool their resources in some way. Or am I
> really naive?
>
> Monica
>
> Monica Friedlander ~ Communications Manager ~ College of Letters and
> Science
> 201 Campbell Hall ~ UC Berkeley ~ Berkeley, CA 94720 ~ 510. 642. 1307
>
>
> On Jun 21, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Raymond Yee wrote:
>
>> Depending on how you plan to use the images, you might also explore
>> Creative Commons licensed photos (http://creativecommons.org/) that
>> you might be able to use free of charge. You can try the CC search
>> page: http://search.creativecommons.org
>>
>> I think that for searching Creative Commons licensed images on
>> flickr.com is a potentially good way to go
>> http://flickr.com/creativecommons/
>>
>> -Raymond Yee
>>
>> Susan L. Hedgpeth wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Webnet,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for photos of doctors (medical, optometrist, vet, etc.)
>>> and other medical personnel to use on our health careers web pages.
>>> Some questions have come up:
>>>
>>> 1. What are the rules for using photos found on the web for example
>>> via a google search? i.e., do I need to get permission to use them?
>>>
>>> 2. Does the university have a library of photos that I can use?
>>>
>>> 3. Do you know of other sources for photos?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Susan Hedgpeth
>>> Career Center
>>> career.berkeley.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Raymond Yee 2195 Hearst (250-22)
>> Technology Architect UC Berkeley
>> Interactive University Project Berkeley, CA 94720-3810
>> yee@uclink.berkeley.edu <mailto:yee@uclink.berkeley.edu>
>> 510-642-0476 (work)
>> http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee 413-541-5683 (fax)
>>
>>
>
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