Watch this great video hosted on Revver about Creative Commons. You can get more information from Creative Commons about how to put your works online for others to use.

http://www.creativecommons.org

Also, visit the Creative Commons site from Flickr to work with photos just for CC work.

http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/




Janice Friesen's great page about Copyright resources as well as educating people about copyright - http://jfriesen.net/copyright/copyrightforedmain.htm

Image Resources:
Copryight-Free Photo Archives - 27,000 images from NASA, NOAA, and FWS
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ DHD Multimedia Gallery (Selection of images, sounds, etc.)
http://gallery.hd.org/index.jsp Free Foto
http://www.freefoto.com/ Free Images - 2500 stock photos (most free, some members only)
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ Free Stock Photos
http://freestockphotos.com/ Imagesafter (Hi-res images, photos, & textures)
http://www.imageafter.com/ Pics4Learning - great for general topics
http://pics4learning.com/ Smithsonian Institution's Office of Imaging and Photographic Services
http://photo2.si.edu/
Coin Page
http://www.coinpage.com/ Free Public Domain Images - small collection
http://www.pdimages.com/web6.htm Great Images in NASA
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ JSC Digital Image Collection (NASA) - seach or browse 9000 NASA images
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/ NASA Multimedia Gallery (Images, video, and interactive features)
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/highlights/index.html Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Photo Gallery
http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/ NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Photo Library - search 20,000 NOAA images
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ Planetary Photojournal from NASA
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/ Public Health Image Library (PHIL) from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/default.asp US Fish and Wildlife Service: Pictures/Graphics
http://pictures.fws.gov/

Text Resources Project Gutenberg (electronic texts)
http://gutenberg.net/ Stories and Characters That Have Had Their Copyright Expire
http://www.pdimages.com/stories.htm

Music
Links to Search for PD Music and Lyrics
http://www.pdinfo.com/link.htm
Few Other Sources With Varying Restrictions The following sites contain some photographsand/or that may also require payment or permission for use. Read the copyright sections at each site to determine exact restrictions. American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html Free Photographs
http://www.free-photographs.net/ iStockphoto (Read the Introduction section to learn more about their download credit system)
http://www.istockphoto.com/ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
http://nix.nasa.gov/ NetVet (Links-site to collections with varying restrictions of use)
http://netvet.wustl.edu/pix.htm New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/
Collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.