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Categorized Copyright Resources. What Is Copyright? YouTube Copyright School. Copyright Kids! Government Resources for Science Images. Most images are protected by copyright and cannot be reproduced without permission from the copyright owner.

Government Resources for Science Images

The exceptions are U.S. Government images, which generally are in the public domain and free from copyright. Even though the following image sources are from government Web sites, it is always good practice to make sure that the image is not protected by copyright. One way to do this is to look for the artist credit and copyright symbol (©). If there is a copyright symbol, ©, and a date (©2002) then that image is protected by copyright. The Internet resources below are organized by broad scientific classes. For a complete list of Government image Web sites, see the USA.gov graphics list at. Copyright and Primary Sources. How do I use the Restriction Statements that accompany the American Memory collections?

Copyright and Primary Sources

The Library of Congress assesses materials for legal considerations prior to placing items online (see legal assessment). The Restriction Statement that accompanies each American Memory collection provides known information regarding ownership of materials in the collection. If known, we include contacts for permission. Wikimedia Commons. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. Watch, share and upload your high quality videos. SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds. Catalog - Jamendo Royalty Free Music Licensing. Publish/Audio/SoundCloud - Creative Commons. SoundCloud has an excellent primer on Creative Commons, which gives you all the info you need to know about uploading and licensing music on their platform.

Publish/Audio/SoundCloud - Creative Commons

You can 1) choose a CC license when uploading a track or set or 2) change your default license setting in your 'extra settings'. 1) After registering an account, select 'Upload & Share' from the top menu, or go to Upload your track or set. Publish/Audio/Jamendo - Creative Commons. U.S. Copyright Office. Notices of Restored Copyrights In 1996, copyright was automatically restored in certain foreign works that were then in the public domain in the United States but were protected by copyright or neighboring rights in the source country.

U.S. Copyright Office

Read More Online Service Providers The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, signed into law on October 28, 1998, amended the United States Copyright Act, Title 17 of the U.S. Publish/Video/Vimeo - Creative Commons. Creative Commons - YouTube Help. Flickr, a Yahoo company. Publish/Images/Flickr - Creative Commons. How to publish on Flickr There are many ways to CC license your content in Flickr.

Publish/Images/Flickr - Creative Commons

The three main ways are 1) setting a default license for your account to apply the license to all new uploads, 2) batch-licensing all your previous uploads, or 3) selectively licensing some of your photos. Copyright Free Content. Free Articles, Free Web Content, Reprint Articles. ArticleCity.com - Free Articles for Reprint. Free Articles for your web site and newsletters. Submit Your Articles to Our Articles Directory. Free Images & Stock Photos by StockFreeImages.com. 5000 Free Stock Photos. 8000 Free Cliparts. Free Illustrations Clipart Stock Photos. Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse. That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways.

Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse

The Library now makes it possible to download such items in the highest resolution available directly from the Digital Collections website. Search Digital Collections No permission required. No restrictions on use. Below you'll find tools, projects, and explorations designed to inspire your own creations—go forth and reuse! Visualize the Public Domain An experiment by NYPL Labs to help patrons understand and explore what is contained in this release. Discover the Collections Learn more about our public domain release. Apply for the Remix Residency To promote transformative, interesting, and creative new uses of our Digital Collections and data, NYPL is now accepting applications for a Remix Residency program. Use Our Data and Utilities Our digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over one million records for you to search, crawl and compute. PDClipart.org - Public Domain Clip Art.

Royalty-free vector clip art and graphics. Free Clip Art & Images - Millions of Royalty Free Images. Public domain Clipart. Photos For Class - The quick and safe way to find and cite images for class! Morguefile.com free stock photos. When we share, everyone wins. CC Search. Firefox and CC Search - Creative Commons. A plugin for the Creative Commons search tool is built into some versions of the Firefox web browser.

Firefox and CC Search - Creative Commons

On most versions, the search box defaults to using Google. You can change your search engine by clicking on the small black arrow in the search bar. See the screenshot below. If CC Search isn't available on your browser, you can always visit directly, or see CC Search Browser Plugins for search plugins you can add to your browser. Using the drop down menu pictured above you can access the Creative Commons search tool or any other installed search engine plugin. Mac instructions Click on the logo that appears in the search box (the CC logo, or the Google logo, for example). It's easy to switch between search providers through the keyboard as well. Get Firefox! If you don't have Firefox, you can get it from. Blog. Open In Order To…Promote Knowledge Sharing, Not Criminalize It It’s Open Access Week, the yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research.

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Open Access Week—now in its 10th year—also mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research, and … Read More “Open In Order To…Promote Knowledge Sharing, Not Criminalize It”