COPYLEFT AND CREATIVE COMMONS' LICENSES
There are copyrighted materials AND there are non-copyrighted materials, which include government documents, works of which the author has dead longer than 70 years, and the so-called "copyleft" materials.
If you type in a keyword "free download" in Google's search engine, it will give you more than a billion entries. Those are "Copyleft" materials you can download and use freely for your school projects.
Among the billion, Creative Commons is the most noteworthy. Typically, Creative Commons' licenses come with a symbol and link. Beginning in November of 2005 Google started to allow users to do an advanced search for material with Creative Commons' usage rights. Creative Commons Licensed materials are excellent resources (Shamburg, 2006).
I strongly suggest you to use the sources listed below to download the stuff you need --- music, video, photo, text document, etc. for your projects and your own leisure.
1. Creative Commons Home Page
www.creativecommons.org
2. On line photo sharing sites liscenced with Creative Commons
www.flickr.com
www.openphoto.net
3. On line music sharing sites liscenced with Creative Commons
www.magnatune.com
www.opsound.org
www.garageband.com
www.dance-industries.com
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu
www.archive.org
www.ourmedia.org
www.revver.com
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Note to my readers:
Let's share on these kind of sources. I'd like to know the good free sites you know. You can contact me at the e-mail link below. Thanks.
