Getting creative on the Commons
Flickr.com and Creative Commons Licensed materials
Flickr.com is a photo-sharing site that you can join for free http://www.flickr.com/ Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry http://creativecommons.org/ .You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved. http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
- There's lots of stuff out there - how can we share it and use it?
- Look! - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=people%20learning&w=all
- But we could be stealing people's creative work
- How can we use CCL content?
- Collect our own content - get out your camera and upload to flickr.com, CCL of course
- Search for CCL content http://www.flickr.com/ then click search, Advanced search, [term], Only search within Creative Commons-licensed photos
- Find content to modify, adapt, or build upon
- Go to repositories e.g. Behold http://photo.beholdsearch.com/search.jsp
- A specific example - flickr.com
- Let's look Tag ALT-C2007 - sharing pictures through tags
- http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=ALT-C2007&w=all&s=int
