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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.Mark Twain

The world’s first copyright law, the Statute of Anne, was enacted in England in 1710. Exercising its power under the newly adopted Constitution to secure the rights of authors and inventors, Congress passed an act almost identical to the Statute of Anne as the first American copyright law in 1790.

Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web.

To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons.

Creative Commons Licenses

Attribution

Creative Commons Licenses

Share Alike

Creative Commons Licenses

No Derivatives

Creative Commons Licenses

Non Commercial

All Creative Commons licenses call for attribution. The remaining CC licenses combine two or more of the above conditions:

Attribution Only

Attribute – Non Commercial

Attribute – No Derivatives

Attribute – Share Alike

Attribute – Non Commercial, Share Alike

Attribute – Non Commercial, No Derivatives

Where do I find these great images, you ask?

Flickr (pronounced "flicker") is an image hosting and video hosting website, and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.

https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Other Creative Commons Image Sources

http://pixabay.com/en/

http://simple.fotopedia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons

http://openclipart.org/