Support Creative Commons
Creative Commons is an organization that helps individuals share and remix their songs, videos, writings, etc. under appropriate licenses. Need a picture for a blog posting? Search Flickr, Google, Yahoo, all of which now have Creative Commons search options. With a CC license, you know ahead of time which rights you have. Don’t forget to give credit to the original creator, and consider sharing your work under a CC license, too.
As a non-profit, Creative Commons needs support from lots of individual folks who believe that there is a large reasonable middle ground between locked-down copyright and public domain. If you can, contribute to Creative Commons:
(Disclaimer: I’ve been helping Creative Commons with tech issues since 2002.)
UPDATE: In the comments, I’ve added pointers to Google, Yahoo, and Flickr’s Creative Commons search pages.
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October 10th, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
>Need a picture for a blog posting? Search Flickr,
>Google, Yahoo, all of which now have Creative Commons
>search options
Can you describe how for the denser amongst us? I could not find the option on google’s site.
October 12th, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
On Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
(look at usage rights)
On Yahoo:
http://search.yahoo.com/cc
On Flickr:
http://flickr.com/creativecommons/