ASD Libraries: Information Literacy: Copyright & creative commons

Creative Commons

What is Creative commons
Creative Commons licenses are free copyright licenses that creators can use to indicate how they'd like their work to be used. Creators can choose from a set of six licenses with varying permissions, from the most open license to the least open license.
Creative commons

When to use

Attribution

Fair Use Guidelines for student projects:

Always give full credit - In your citation you should include the creator, title of the work, date of publication, and URL. (Note: "youtube.com" should never be cited as the creator - it is always the user or company who made the original content)
Only use a small amount (e.g. 5-10 seconds of video or music)
If shared online, make your video private. Do not make your project publicly-available -- for example, there are settings in Youtube.com to make videos "unlisted" so that only people with a link will ever see your video.

Finding Music

Places to find music and sound clips

Creative commons explained

Copyright Free images

Here are some guides with examples of copyright free images

Image Databases

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Artstor features millions of high-quality images and media from some of the world’s top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else.
Register for a free JSTOR account to access up to 100 subscription items per month.

Free Icons, Graphics & Templates

Noun Project and Flaticon provide simple icons and graphics. You can search by topic or theme and download the icon to use in your project. Just remember: honor the creator by citing your sources in your work. The site will show you how.

Noun Project
Over 2 Million curated icons, created by a global community
Flaticon
Thousands of free icons in a database of free vector icons! SVG, PSD, PNG, EPS format or as ICON FONT.
Slides Carnival
Free templates and icons for presentations. Download as Powerpoint. Be careful not to click on adverts.

Pexel

Pexels
It's hard to understand complex licenses that is why all photos on Pexels are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means the pictures are completely free to be used for any legal purpose.

The pictures are free for personal and even for commercial use.
You can modify, copy and distribute the photos.
All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source. So, attribution is not required.

Other free images

Unsplash
The internet’s source of freely-usable images.
Powered by creators everywhere.
Nappy.co
Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free.
Burst Shopify
Free stock photos for websites and commercial use. Download free, high-resolution images