Copyright is the right to control the copying and some other forms of exploitation of copyright material.
In other words it is the legal right that a person or organisation has to distribute given material.
Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission. This means you have copied something covered by copyright for your own use with permission from the owner.
Simply finding an image through a Google search engine does not mean you are legally allowed to freely distribute the image.
There are places to go for free pictures- http://search.creativecommons.org/ is one picture search engine where you can copy the picture and modify it legally.
Workbook definitions- Copyright and copyright infringement
In other words it is the legal right that a person or organisation has to distribute given material.
Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission. This means you have copied something covered by copyright for your own use with permission from the owner.
Simply finding an image through a Google search engine does not mean you are legally allowed to freely distribute the image.
There are places to go for free pictures- http://search.creativecommons.org/ is one picture search engine where you can copy the picture and modify it legally.
Workbook definitions- Copyright and copyright infringement