Fair Use and Copyright Issues
Ideally, the author of any paper, poster or
presentation would use his/her own images as
illustrations. However, when it becomes
necessary to use an image from another source in a
paper, poster or presentation, you should always
identify the owner and source of the image.
If your presentation/poster is to be used
outside the campus, like at a national
conference or published in a national journal,
you must obtain permission from the owner of
the copyrighted image to use it.
This process may be
as simple as an e-mail or may take weeks
if dealing with a publishing company. Keep a copy of your
request for permission and the permission
received. Acknowledge that permission was
obtained under the image with the phrase "Used
with permission." If a presentation
or poster is to be used
for nonprofit or
educational purposes such as a class, it is
more likely to be considered fair use, and you
do not have to get permission to use a
copyrighted image but should still
acknowledge the source of the image.
Crediting the
Image Source
Under the
Image on the Slide/Page: Put copyright
information under the image on the
page/slide in which it appears.
Indicate if it is used with permission.
Here are three PowerPoint slides with images
from WebPath, images.MD, and eMedicine.
Citation: Images used in a paper, poster or
presentation should be cited in either a
footnote at the bottom of the slide or
on the
references list in the same format used
for other references (AMA, APA, etc.). If Endnote is
used, use the form for a Figure. It
will ask for author, description of image
content, source name
like the name of the book or journal,
publisher, web site, date copyrighted, date accessed,
and URL of the page where the image was
located (not the URL of the image file).
When capturing an image from any source,
every effort should be made to obtain
information on the source and owner of the image.
Usually the copyright information is
provided on the web site main page, or on
the About Us page if not on the page with
the image. Here is an images
references slide for the three slides above:
Note that the URL used is NOT the link to
the image file, but the link to the web page
where the image can be seen with captions.
Sources of Images
The Maguire Medical Library subscribes to a
number of resources that provide images for use
by our faculty and students.
 Images.MD
- Provides close to 50,000 images across
all aspects of basic science and clinical
medicine. A capability to save images in
your personal library is provided via
self-created passwords. Use the quick search
or select the Advanced Search.
 E-medicine
- Includes over 30,000 images. Use
the search function on the top right of the
main page after selecting Search Images.
Access Medicine Images - Include all
the images from the many eBooks within the
McGraw-Hill web site. Click the Images
tab and search just the images or browse
through the alphabet.
MDConsult Images - Include over
50,000 high quality images from all the
ebooks within MDConsult web site.
Click the Images tab and search just the
images.
Webpath - FSU CoM's own Dr. Edward
Klatt's fabulous teaching tool is a huge
resource for histology, radiology and gross
pathology images. Unfortunately, it is
not searchable. You have to follow the links
to the different kinds of pathology. These
are definitely copyrighted.
Catalog of Clinical Images
(UCSD) This is a
nice collection of physical exam findings of
pathology shared online by the University of
California, San Diego.
Images in Google - Search the web
for images. Most of what you find will
be too small to be used effectively in a
PowerPoint or any publication. So use
the advanced feature for finding large
images. Also, note that these images
are likely copyrighted. Try to find as
much information on these images that you
can so that you can identify the source
accurately under your image and in your
references.
Scanning - You can scan any print
image that you can find in books or
journals. However, again, these are
copyrighted and you must obtain permission
from the owner
to use these unless it is for an
instructional activity involving medical
students on one of our campuses. Scan
at 200 - 300 DPI, then use a graphics
program to resize the image to the size you
need for your project.
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