Scholarly Publishing

Locate all sorts of materials licensed under Creative Commons. These are much easier to use, because terms of use are laid out for you! Explore the different kinds of licenses – the most flexible ones are those that do not include the “ND”, or No Derivatives, clause.

Advanced search in Flickr gives you the option to ONLY search within Creative Commons-licensed content

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.

In the “Advanced Search”, you can limit your search results to images “available for reuse.” Be careful – just as Google Scholar’s metadata is suspect, so is its ability to eliminate copyrighted images. Look for additional confirmation that the image you plan on using is truly free of copyright restrictions.

Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses.
Share your music, download your favorite artists!

YouTube’s catalog of Creative Commons clips is being seeded with more than 10,000 videos from partners like C-SPAN, Voice of America and Al-Jazeera

Creative Commons created the legal and technical infrastructure that allows effective sharing of knowledge, art and data by individuals, organizations and governments. More importantly, millions of creators took advantage of that infrastructure to share work that enriches the global commons for all humanity. The Power of Open collects the stories of those creators.