Creative Commons and Searching OERs

What is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. It provides free, easy-to-use legal tools that give everyone from individual “user generated content” creators to major companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to pre-clear usage rights to creative work they own the copyright to. CC licenses let people easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”

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Searching OERs

Creative Commons does not maintain a database of content. The following is a list of organisations and projects powered with Creative Commons licenses. Many of the listings in the Content Directories are organizations that provide services using Creative Commons licenses.

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Flickr

Flickr.com is a photo-sharing website that allows users to license their photos under Creative Commons licenses.

The Creative Commons Search facility helps identify CC-licensed images use for commercial purposes or images that can be modified, adapted.

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