Pictures and Figures
Pictures, broadly understood as visual art, drawings, photographs, illustrations, figures, graphs etc. are protected under the Danish Copyright Law.
This means that you need permission to use them.
Pictures with free usage
Pictures can be used freely if the owner has given their permission.
This can be a written permission or a Creative Commons license.
Please note: The copyright of an artwork expires 70 years after the death of the creator.
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Photographs of imagery
A photographer generally holds the copyright to the photographs they have taken.
When you use photographs (including photographs of designs, paintings, architecture etc.) it is therefore the photographer who took the photograph who holds the copyright.
Therefore, remember to get permission from the copyright holder before using photographs.
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Pictures in non-publicised assignments
If you use images for teaching purposes, you are covered by University College Absalon's framework agreement with AVU-medier.
If your assignment is shared exclusively via ItsLearning or similar secure access-protected intranet that are not publicly accessible, you may use isolated digital and analog images in your assignment, in a PowerPoint or in connection with your teaching.
Please note:
Always remember to credit the copyright holder underneath or near the image, regardless of whether you use the image in an assignment, a PowerPoint or similar.
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Pictures in publicised assignments
If you upload your assignment or PowerPoint on social media, in an assignment bank or on a website. it is considered publicly available.
Publicly available assignments are not covered by the agreement between University College Absalon and AVU-medier.
Therefore, make sure that you either:
- Remove the images in the assignment.
- Contact the rights holders and get their consent to use the images.
- Replace the images with alternative ones that are licensed under a Creative Commons license.
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Your own pictures
Pictures you’ve created yourselves belong to you.
However, if you take a portrait photo of someone else and use it in your assignment, you need their consent.
It’s best to get written consent.