Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of other creators." wikipedia



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Main CC Site

It is important to note that there are a number of different licences and these will determine how you can use the digital resource. The Flickr Creative Commons page, provides and excellent description of the various licences and their Logos

License Generator

CC Licensed Media

Jamendo (CC Music)

Magnatune (CC Licensed Music)

Creative Commons (CC) on Flickr
Of the c. 2 billion images on Flickr currently 90 million use a Creative Commons licences. Of course this provides the same problem as doing a Google search, finding the most meaningful images for your needs.

Strategies

• Use Advanced Search to locate images
• Search using Tags and Groups as well as Keywords
  
• Once you have completed a search; check out the three categories, Most Relevant, Most Recent & Most Interesting to re-order the results
  

Flickr Commons
One of the most interesting developments of 2008 was the decision by the US Library of congress to make over 4000 image from its archive available under a 'commons' licence - No Known Copyright Restrictions - users were encouraged to add comments and notes and tags to the images. This proved of great value not only to the world wide audience who could appreciate and interact with the collection; but the Library itself who gathered missing information from user comments and tags; the detail of this can be found in the first published report of the project which can be downloaded here as a pdf. Since then more Museums and Archives have added treasures and resources to The Commons as the collections on Flickr are now known. The Commons now stands at 22 organisations including The National Galleries of Scotland and The National Media Museum in Bradford from the UK, whilst the Nantuket Historical Association joined this week com. 9 Mar 2009

The Internet Archive is a non profit organisation with a library of digital content including web pages. The web page section is also known as the Wayback Machine which

The media library contains most types of digital content including

• documents & text
• software
  
• audio
• video, animations
• open educational resources
  

Much of this content is of significant historical and educational potential and much of it is the public domain. has CC license or is available for educational use. Files are offered in as wide a range of file formats as possible
Understandably; in an archive whose scope is as encompassing there may be copyright IPR issues, possibly from an international perspective thta we may need to discuss in the threads.

Cape Town Declaration
The aim of Cape Town Open Education Declaration is to accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education. If you agree with the aims please add your name to the list.


OER Commons

"In a brave new world of learning, OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know"

OER Commons opportunity to access and contribute to a growing repository of open educational resources. Terms of use of individual items vary; so check when using.

This tutorial site (www.w2tw.co.uk) shows people how to use the Internet. The site also shows users how to copy and paste text, and save images found online (in Section 6). As part of this, copyright is mentioned ensuring that those who try the techniques shown realise that they shouldn't just copy things without asking first, or giving credit to the original creator.