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"This video tells the story of a photographer who learns to use both Copyright and Creative Commons to accomplish her goals."

This add-in for Microsoft Office enables authors and editors to embed Creative Commons licenses directly into Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents.

A straightforward explanation of Creative Commons in easy to read cartoon format.

"Luckily, there are resources across the Web that allow you to use multimedia content for free with some simple attribution."

How to attribute a Creative Commons photo from Flickr

Using CC0, you can waive all copyrights and related or neighboring rights that you have over your work, such as your moral rights (to the extent waivable), your publicity or privacy rights, rights you have protecting against unfair competition, and database rights and rights protecting the extraction, dissemination and reuse of data.

Post with links to free images and sounds for student projects. Multiple websites for public domain images and sounds that are safe for student searching. You will find glorious photo landscapes, character illustrations of fairy tale characters, tornado sound effects, and more.

In addition, the writer included suggested curriculum units that could be supported through the use of the websites.

Another GREAT search tool for creative commons images

Great flickr search tool

Nice blog post about using creative commons in the classroom.