Guides: Copyright: Creative Commons

What is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons
is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding the materials educational institutions can locate and use for their students at no cost.

Smart Copying: What is Creative Commons?
"It provides free licenses for creators to use when making their work available to the public. These licenses help the creator to give permission for others to use the work in advance under certain conditions."

Search for Images Online through Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization that works on expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

Briefly...

Attribution means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.

Noncommercial means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.

No Derivative Works means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Share Alike means:
You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs

Search Creative Commons
Please note that search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations. CC has no control over the results that are returned. Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license.
Flickr - advanced search
Check the "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content" box.
Google Image - advanced image search
Under usage rights, select "Creative Commons license."