In this weeks class you are learning to include and manipulate images that we have provided to you. When using images from the Internet you should be aware of who owns the images and if you are allowed under copyright laws to re-use or alter them. Creative Commons provides a way for people to share their work, be it an image, music, book or video through a creative commons licence. Try searching for images using Google that have a creative commons licence. (This is done in the advanced search options in Google's image search).

A Culture of Sharing
Creative Commons is building a culture of sharing. By allowing your work to be available to millions of other creators on the web, you might be responsible for the next big thing. Find content you can share, use and remix.
The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.

Creative Commons includes the following:

1. Images
2. Video
3. Documents
4. Music
5. Journals
6. Courseware

It is used by: