"This article sets out to explain some of the general principles in law which apply to using and re-using digital images, and provide guidelines for good practice in referencing and attributing sources when sharing content online that others have created."
"No! You can't just take it!
No! You can't take it, because you found it on Google!
No! You can't just right click>save>use, just because you can!
No! You can't just pretend that you created it!
No! You can't make money off my work that I shared FREELY under certain conditions!
No! You can't just take it…even in the name of education!
No! You can't just take it… even if AND ESPECIALLY BECAUSE you are a teacher!"
The Creative Commons organization now has a tool to help you choose the best license for your situation. It helps you select the right license for your work. To select the right license for your work just answer a few questions and a license will be recommended to you.
A new Creative Commons license chooser launched this week. The very simple interface presents four boxes that update dynamically as users select options and complete attribution metadata.
After completing the form, users are presented with a suggested license, a choice of regular or compact size icons, and embed code for inserting their license on a web page.
"We offer a wide variety of 100% free production music in eight genres: cinematic scores, corporate, easy listening, electronic, hip-hop, international, pop and rock.
We're committed to helping you find the perfect song for your video, movie, film, video game, or media project.
Our music comes with a royalty-free license allowing you to use the music in all types of productions for worldwide distribution, forever. There are never any fees."
"People in the 3-D printing world have talked for years about the possibility of unauthorized copying and sharing of designs-similar to what the file-sharing program Napster allowed for music. Now the first commercial solution to this as-yet theoretical problem is preparing to launch. It was developed by Authentise, a startup based in Mountain View, California."
IPAF (eye-paf) - aka The Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation.
IPAF works to raise awareness of the value of film and television content and the impact of online piracy and encourage Australians to access this content via legitimate channels.
"Creative Commons worked for more than two years to develop the next generation of CC licenses - the version 4.0 CC license suite. The new licenses are more user-friendly and more internationally robust than ever before.
We made dozens of improvements to the licenses. Most will go unnoticed by many CC licensors and licensees, but some of them deserve particular attention.
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"n this day and age, it seems everything online has a price associated with it. Whether you're subscribing to a pay site for full articles or clicking on ads in a blog, everything online seems to have money associated with it. Luckily there is still a large, and very healthy, movement online for media files listed under the Creative Commons licenses."
"A suite of tools that makes it ridiculously simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work. These tools will query the metadata around a CC-licensed object and produce a properly formatted attribution that users can copy and paste wherever they need to."
"ImageStamper is a free tool for keeping dated, independently verified copies of license conditions associated with creative commons images. You can use it to safeguard your use of free images from license changes, or to prove you are the original image creator"