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=Copyright-safe sources of multimedia= toc There is good news for educators who are worried that they may be breaking copyright laws when using publicly available photos, music and videos, and other content. In November 2008, a panel of university professors through a partnership among Media Education Lab at Temple University, the Center for Social Media at American University (AU), and AU's Washington College of Law, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, developed a "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education". Read more about it on our Copyright - Fair Use page.

But there's more. For a number of years now, resources have been developed to address the relationship between creators and users of copyrighted materials and to establish a system where there are clearly defined rules and permissions regarding this issue. ==

More and more creators of content register their work with [|creativecommons]. This allows you to use their work with various levels of permissions as defined by the creative commons license. Here is a shared Google presentation with information, resources, links and ideas for using Creative Commons licensing.

The following links are to sources for photos, sounds, music, and videos that have either been registered with creative commons or have in other ways identified themselves as available for educators.

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Open Educational Resources licenses activity by BUY Independent Study http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Coll_opencontent/OERRemixGame/OERRemixGameFiles.zip/PublicVersion.html

Photos
Edubloggers directory July 2014 - http://theedublogger.com/2014/07/09/the-ultimate-directory-of-free-image-sources/ free photos [] creative commons images [] free images under creative commons license [|Free Photo Gallery] public domain, copyright friendly images http://www.public-domain-image.com/ pics for learning http://www.pics4learning.com/ flickr Creative Commons Images - http://flickr.com/creativecommons/ freefoto http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp free digital photos http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ wikimedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Public Domain Images from the U.S. Government http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml Public Domain clipart []

search engine for copyright-safe image search http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=011011820386761411814:fdioa10ovoi

and more recommendations from Mathew [|Needleman] free images donated by photographers - http://www.morguefile.com/

Tutorial from Wesley Fryer's blog Talk with Media - January 2011 media type="custom" key="8238586"

Clipart
This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use. - http://www.openclipart.org/ By Philip Martin - http://www.phillipmartin.info/clipart/homepage.htm

Music
copyright-safe to mix & use for not-for-profit purposes from [|Podsafeaudio] selection of music free to use to mix & use for not-for-profit purposes from [|Garageband] selection of music under Creative Commons License from [|Jamendo]'

and more recommendations from Larry [|Ferlazzo]

and more recommendations from Mathew [|Needleman] CC hits ning - http://cchits.ning.com/hits/

Sounds
copyright-safe to mix & use for not-for-profit purposes from the [|Freesound Project] copyrighted sounds available for licensing for educational and personal use from [|Naturesongs.com] and more recommendations from Larry [|Ferlazzo] http://www.soundsnap.com/ http://www.soungle.com/ http://www.grsites.com/sounds/

and more recommendations from Mathew [|Needleman] absolute sound effects archive - http://www.grsites.com/sounds/

Videos
internet archives http://www.archive.org/details/movies videos by experts on topics in all areas of life [|http://www.monkeysee.com]