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Content creators who choose to waive and related rights can place their work in the public domain using a Creative CC0 tool.

Works that have been identified as free of copyright worldwide — typically very old works — can be identified with this .

An introduction to Creative Commons The “all rights reserved” coverage of traditional copyright becomes Sound effects — Freesound at www.freesound.org “some rights reserved” with Creative Commons licensing. Artists may Music — There are lots of sites! Here are a few of the best: choose to their work at www.creativecommons.org. They at www.jamendo.com/en select licenses to tell others how they can share, , and CCMixter at .org features CC-licensed . Here’s a reuse the artists’ images, music, videos, writing, etc. All clips on Audionautix at audionautix.com are Creative When you find a Creative Commons-licensed work, LEGAL way Commons licensed. read the terms of the license. If you honor these terms, you to use others’ FMA at FreeMusicArchive.org has 15 genres to search. may use the work in your project without contacting the work! Each genre has subgenres to help you find what you want. artist to ask for permission. Video —Many in Moving Images at archive.org/ Here’s where to look for Creative Commons-licensed work: details.movies. Look for a Creative Commons logo. Images —’s Advanced Search at www.flickr.org (check the box offers images, video, music, and other sound next to Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content) files: commons.wikimedia.org

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Give the artist If you use a Copy, distribute, Work with this credit and it’s OK ShareAlike- display, and license must be to use the work. licensed work, you perform this work used as is — no Attribution is must register your but for cropping, editing, included in most work with the same noncommercial or other changes CC licenses. CC license. purposes only. are allowed.

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