Subject and Course Guides: Beep 4306 Video Creation: Fair Use and Creative Commons

Best Practices Fair Use

Finding Creative Commons

Jamendo
Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses.
Share your music, download your favorite artists!
Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is a project from WFMU that focuses on aggregating and curating high quality, freely licensed content – the majority of which is CC-licensed.
ccMixter
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Pexels
Flickr Advanced Search
Advanced search in Flickr gives you the option to ONLY search within Creative Commons-licensed content
Photo Everywhere
Creative Commons travel themed images

Attributing Creative Commons

There is no standard way to format the attribution of a CC-licensed work, and you can adapt the style or phrasing to suit your needs or the standard citation style of your discipline.

Here are a few examples:

An Ideal Attribution
This video features the song “Play Your Part (Pt.1)” by Girl Talk, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. © 2008, Greg Gillis.

A Realistic Attribution
Photo by mollyali, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license."

-http://mollykleinman.com/2008/08/15/cc-howto-1-how-to-attribute-a-creative-commons-licensed-work/

Use a link shortener to make your attribution easier to read.

https://bitly.com/