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Medical Images

This guide contains resources to help you locate medical images.

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Six license choices are available using the following license conditions in combination: 

Attribution BYAttribution (BY): All CC licenses require that others who use your work in any way must give you credit the way you request, but not in a way that suggests you endorse them or their use.

Noncommercial NCNoncommercial (NC): You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and (unless you have chosen No Derivatives) modify and use your work for any purpose other than commercially unless they get your permission first.

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Share Alike SAShare Alike (SA): You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other terms, they must get your permission first.

Fair Use

Under the Fair Use doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, you can use some portions of a work including quotes. You can use these limited portions for scholarly reports, commentary, criticism, and news reporting.

House of Representatives, Congress. (2010, December 30). 17 U.S.C. 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use. [Government]. U.S. Government Publishing Office. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2010-title17/USCODE-2010-title17-chap1-sec107
Association of Research Libraries (2015). Fair Use Fundamentals [Infographic]. Fair Use Week. https://www.arl.org/resources/fair-use-fundamentals-infographic/ (CC0)
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