Please only submit a poster that you created that does not have anyone else's copyrighted work on it, unless it is for educational use for your classroom or for a classroom assignment.
Some things that have been requested that we will not print:
- Images of characters from books, TV/movies, video games such as fan art
- Artwork or anything that you downloaded from the internet that is still under copyright protection
Examples:
An artist published his art on his website last month. We cannot print a copy of this for you because the artist owns the copyright on his work.
You want a poster of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night. This work is in the public domain, meaning that the copyright protection has expired on this work. We can print this for you.
You made your own poster for your dorm room with your own images, artwork, public domain images or creative commons content. You used Adobe Express to create the poster. You also used Adobe Express images that are licensed for use for all users of Adobe Express. The poster does not contain anyone else's copyrighted work. We can print this for you.
You are doing a class assignment that requires a poster. You have a few copyrighted images on it along with your report, but you are using this poster for educational purposes during a face-to-face class presentation. We can print this.
Northwest Mississippi Community College adheres to copyright law. This means that the library cannot print work that was created by another person unless you have permission from the person who made it. There are some specific exceptions called Fair Use that gives criteria to determine whether or not copyrighted work can be used, such as for educational purposes in a classroom. As the librarians at Northwest are not lawyers, we will use accepted library practices to determine what can be printed, and we will probably err on the side of caution.
We will also not print anything obscene or derogatory. The librarians at Northwest Mississippi Community College can refuse to print any poster submitted.
