Free Copyright and Creative Commons
Handout – Useful links
Photos/Images
CC Search – http://search.creativecommons.org
Encyclopedia of Life – http://eol.org
Europeana – www.europeana.eu
Flickr – www.flickr.com
FreeDigitalPhotos.net – www.freedigitalphotos.net (see terms of use for
licence types)
Freeimages – www.freeimages.com
Google Images – www.google.com/imghp (Use Advanced image search to
locate CC images.)
Open Clip Art Library – https://openclipart.org
Pixabay – http://pixabay.com/en
Public Library of Science – http://www.plos.org
Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org
Text
Classic Reader – www.classicreader.com
Loyal Books – www.loyalbooks.com
Project Gutenberg Australia – http://gutenberg.net.au
Wikibooks – http://en.wikibooks.org
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Free Copyright and Creative Commons
Video
Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository –
https://archive.org/details/aljazeeramedia
Khan Academy – www.khanacademy.org
TeacherTube – www.teachertube.com
TED – www.ted.com
Vimeo Creative Commons – https://vimeo.com/creativecommons
Audio/music
ccMixter – http://ccmixter.org
Free Music Archive – http://freemusicarchive.org
Freesound – www.freesound.org
Jamendo – www.jamendo.com
SoundCloud – https://soundcloud.com
Education sites
Curriki – www.curriki.org
ck-12 – https://ck12.org
OER Commons – www.oercommons.org
Open Education Europa – http://openeducationeuropa.eu
OpenStax – http://openstax.org
Open Tapestry – www.opentapestry.com
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Free Copyright and Creative Commons PhET – http://phet.colorado.edu (simulation and animation site for
classrooms)
Saylor Academy – www.saylor.org
The Orange Grove: Florida’s Digital Repository –
http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/home.do
WikiEducator – http://wikieducator.org
Wikiversity – http://en.wikiversity.org
Various (images, video, audio or text)
Australian Bureau of Statistics – www.abs.gov.au
National Library of Australia – www.nla.gov.au
The Public Domain Review – http://publicdomainreview.org
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Free Copyright and Creative Commons
Handout – Section 28 Section 28 (s 28) of the Copyright Act 1968 allows copyright material to be performed and communicated as part of educational instruction.
Who can rely on s 28? Teachers and students can rely on s 28: • in the course of giving not-for-profit educational instruction • if people in the audience are involved in giving or receiving educational instruction.
Generally lecturers and teachers from state training providers, TAFEs, schools and some registered training organisations (RTOs) qualify.
Activities covered by s 28 • showing commercial DVDs • playing a CD • displaying material using an interactive whiteboard, learning management system, wiki, blog or intranet • streaming videos from YouTube • linking to websites to display content • reading poetry to a virtual class using Skype • streaming DVDs in a content management system.
Warning! • S 28 does not allow you to download or copy content. • You cannot use illegal copies of DVDs (for example, no Bali DVDs or bootleg copies).
More information If you work for a state training provider, TAFE or school then you may be able to rely on other exceptions or licences to upload or reproduce content. For more information see www.smartcopying.edu.au.
This information is for guidance only. It does not constitute legal advice.
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