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A flowchart for deciding if I can use an image on my website - very well done. via @milesbeasley

"Flat World Knowledge is a textbook publisher, focusing on (mostly entry-level) college textbooks. From its beginning until the end of 2012, Flat World Knowledge licensed all of its books under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa 3.0 license, allowing anyone who so desired to copy them, give them away, or modify them, as long as they acknowledged the authors, released the copies under the same license, and didn't do so for commercial gain."

Great creative commons backgrounds for design/keynote/ibooks etc etc

Resource collection collected for 2011 Librarians Symposium in Shanghai by Dianne McKenzie -- a work in progress.  Mainly based on US copyright law.

Getty Images is making tens of millions of its photos free for non-commercial use

"The Wikimedia Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons."

"With ImageCodr.org, there is no need to do all this manually, you simply enter in the URL of the picture page (as seen in your browser) you are interested in and ImageCodr.org will generate the ready to use HTML code. It will also display a brief and easy license summary, so you don't get in legal trouble because you missed something."

Excellent video explaining Creative Commons and its role in today's shared culture.

"Creative Commons licences explained. By Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand with support from InternetNZ. To find out more about Creative Commons in New Zealand visit us at creativecommons.org.nz"

list of resources for Fair Use and Creative Commons -- images, music, videos, etc.

Good list of places to find creative commons media (audio, images, video, etc.)

More than 10,000 items in the Walters Art Museum - about a third of the total collection - can now be viewed and downloaded online for free, without copyright restrictions.

Audionautix is a good one...