Google search by usage rights

Now you can slice/dice Google image searches by usage rights under “Search tools. Thanks to @lessig for the request! pic.twitter.com/8mQxxebTHJ — Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) January 14, 2014

In the past, we had to lead students to the little gear that appeared after a search, offering hidden access to Google’s Advanced Image Search.  Once there, students had to scroll to the very bottom to find the elusive Usage Rights filter.
Only the most intrepid searchers would bother.
(Here’s what that old way looked like.)
It’s pretty fabulous, and about time that the process is easier in Google.
And, here are several other copyright-friendly image search options:

• Creative Commons Search
• Flickr: Creative Commons
• Google Advanced Image Search
• Flickr Blue Mountain
• Wikimedia Commons
• Compfight / A Flickr Search Tool
• FlickrStorm
• Foter, PhotoPin, and Wylio (great for bloggers!)
• Pixabay (public domain photos)
• PicDrome (public domain photos)
• TinEye (search by CC images by color)

Mostly Public Domain (historical)

• Wikimedia Commons
• Flickr: The Commons
• Google Advanced Image Search (select free to use or share under usage rights)
• Library of Congress Photo Stream on Flickr
• American Memory Collection
• Archive.org
• National Gallery: NGA Images
• NARA (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Flickr: The British Library’s Photostream
• Old Pictures (mostly government photos 1850s to 1940s)
• USA.gov Photos & Images
• Media History Digital Library
• National Archives Presidential Libraries and Museums
• US History Image Bank
• Picturing the Century
• Images of American Political History
• University of Texas’s Portrait Gallery
• NYPL Digital Gallery (Some of the images in the Digital Gallery may be subject to third party rights such as copyright and/or rights of privacy/publicity)
• Smithsonian Galaxy of Images
• Smithsonian Flickr PhotoStream
• EASE History (includes many Federal government images)
• Internet Archive Moving Images
• National Parks Service Imagebase
• American Memory Timeline for Teachers
• New York Public Library Image Archives
• Artifact and Analysis (Smithsonian)

And here’s the Copyright-friendly Toolkit Smore I use in instruction.
Note: Last summer, Bing introduced a pull-down to make it easier to sort results by usage rights.