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A simple infographic that simply sums up the poignant points that teachers and students need to know to better understand CC.

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.

Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright - all rights reserved - and the public domain - no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work - a "some rights reserved" copyright.

This cartoon strip from nerdson blog has been translated and reproduced on the UNESCO elearning blog. It is an interesting way to explain to students about how Creative Commons works.

"These CC 4.0 licenses are the result of of two years of work to overcome some of the weaknesses that marked the 2011 version CC licenses. Some of the features and improvements included in 4.0 licences which make them easily shared and re-used include improved readability and organization and common-sense attribution."

Yale Digital Commons has debuted with just under 260,000 images. The idea is to encompass the whole of the university's collections in time.

Great video of 'How to create a great PowerPoint presentation without breaking the law' by Alvin Trusty (via Wes Fryer's Blog). Quite long (40-odd minutes), but very good messages throughout. I particularly liked the way he talked about creative commons and the use of www.compfight.com as a means of obtaining high quality images.

A new way of exploring the Flickr collections is commonsExplorer, from Creative Canberra. It is an experimental interactive browser for the Flickr Commons. It provides a "big picture" view of these collections - a rich, single screen interface that reveals structures and patterns and encourages exploration. It's a quickly downloaded browsing interface that gives you, and students, a more visual view of the collections and the images. You can scroll through the list of all the participating institutions, then either search through the tag cloud or window shop through the pop-ups for images.

Some fair use sites that offer music and other media for a school project.

Open content licensing for educators is a free online workshop designed for educators who want to learn more about open education resources, copyright, and creative commons licenses.

A good resource, showing creative commons media sources for audio, images and video

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter.

Everything internet - excellent advice and tutorials including copyright, searching, creative commons, email, social networks. A very modern resource for all ICT classroom teachers

By uploading photos you are the copyright holder and make your photos available under Creative Commons Attibution License. Get instant, free photos for your articles and web pages - just copy & paste the code to your page.

Podsafe Music under the Creative Commons license for Podcasting