Most of the documents (text, pictures, audio and video) that you can find on the internet are copyrighted materials. In fact, even if the author of doesn’t specify that his/her work is copyrighted; by default all works are copyrighted. This shows you that you can’t really ever use someone else’s works unless given permission.
To solve this type of problem founded in 2001 Creative Commons has made a number of legal alternative licenses for makers of public works to attach to their publications. As a Creative Commons licensed user you are free: to share, to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix. You can almost do anything with the work under the following conditions of Creative Commons:
Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
Noncommercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
Share Alike: If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
To reuse or distribution: You must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
For example, a writer or an artist can make his/her work available to anyone who wants to use the work for non-commercial purposes, but the writer or the artist can still require payments for any commercial use. Per say, you are a student and for your class presentation you got an article from Creative Commons. Since this is a non commercial work you don’t have to pay the writer but if you gather the article to write a book then you have to pay.
To find any text, pictures, audio and video you can go to Creative Commons and then choose your search engine and that’s it, hopefully you will find what you are looking for.
Basically, if you think about it, you just need to know how the Creative Commons licenses work to make sure that you are playing by the rules.
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