Ethics

The main areas of ethical boundaries lie within;

- What is socially acceptable, meaning how far can we alter an image until we see it as wrong

- Copyright boundaries, meaning the limitations to what we can use as sources, etc.

For copyright there are limits to what an individual or group of people can use, and this falls under creative commons and their licencing terms, which are;

- Attribution -"This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials."

- Attribution no derivatives - "This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you."

- Attribution non commercial - share a like "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms."

- Attribution share-alike - "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects."

- Attribution non commercial - "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms."

- Attribution non commercial no derivatives - "This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially."

Quotes taken from - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Although i would have to use specifically licenced works, i do not need to pick and choose, because i am a student and this falls under academic work so copyright law does not apply.