The Intellectual Property Office has a useful copyright guidance: Digital images, photographs and the internet. It is aimed at people using images found online, or uploading images to the internet.  See the link below.

Please also see our images library guide for more information about using images in your work.  

The best way of finding images you can reuse without separate permission is to use the Advanced Google Image Search engine.

You can use the drop-down next to Usage Rights to choose from All, Creative Commons licences or Commercial and other licences.

If you limit your search to those with Creative Commons licences in the beginning, you can find images quickly which you can attribute to the creator in your work, without having to contact the creator for any separate permissions.

You can see an example of how to attribute Creative Commons-licensed works at Creative Commons - how to give attribution.

For further guidance and other image banks to try see our Audiovisual Resources Guide.