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Who needs copy-paste? Search for freely licensed images online

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Yesterday, as part of a train-the-trainer assessment, I gave a session about how to use Flickr + Creative Commons to find beautiful images available for remixing and reuse online. There are more than 200 million Creative Commons–licensed photos on Flickr, many of them not relevant to you, of course, but many of them beautiful (like [...]

Lebanon Launches Creative Commons Chapter

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Slide of the CC logo that says some rights reserved
Since 2003, the international nonprofit Creative Commons (known as CC) has endeavored to “save the world from failed sharing.” CC, as it’s called, aims to address the lag of copyright law in keeping pace with changes in digital technology b facilitating sharing. The organization, founded by law professor and author Lawrence Lessig, has created six [...]