Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive

Figure 2.3. In sert Clip Art in PowerPoint 2002
Another way to add graphics to your presentation is to copy and paste. Gen-
erally, if you can see it on your computer you can copy it into your presentation.
However, you must be careful; although you might be able to copy a picture into
your pre sentation, you might not have the right to copy it into your pre sentation.
Be sure to follow copyright law and guidelines, not ing that just because you
don’t see a copyright symbol © does not mean that the picture or Web page is not 
copyrighted. While the fair use as pects of copyright law give you a great deal of
free dom to use copy righted ma te rial for ed u ca tional pur poses, many re stric tions
apply as to what you can use, how much you can use, and for how long you can
use it. Your best bet is to use ma terial you have cre ated yourself, ma terial that is
in the pub lic do main (see for example, http://www.pics4learning.com/), or ma-
terial for which you have ob tained per mission to use. But if you must use copy -
righted ma terial with out per mission, you should pay close at tention to the Fair
Use Guide lines for Ed u ca tional Mul ti me dia (see http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/
intellectualproperty/ccmcguid.htm). While these guide lines are not the law, they
are a good guide for your fair-use rights to use copyrighted material.
If you are on the Web and you see a picture that you want to use and you
have the right to use it be cause of fair use, be cause the pic ture is in the pub lic do -
main, or be cause you have per mission to use it, you can generally copy it into
your PowerPoint presentation. If you are on a Macintosh, point your mouse to
the picture you want to copy and hold the mouse but ton down un til you see a
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menu that pops up. If you are on a Win dows computer, point your mouse to the
picture and right click (that is, click the right mouse but ton; see Figure 2.4).