What is Creative Commons?
Think that image or other content you find online is ok to use? More than likely it's not. You may be using the content illegally, even giving credit on your citation page to the creator might not be enough. To be safe use Creative Commons to find images/content for your scholastic papers or presentations.
So what is Creative Commons? It is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
But there are certain conditions to follow, some of these guidelines are:
• Attribution: allows you to use, share, and modify a work as long as you give credit to the original creator.
• Share Alike: allows you to use, share, and modify a work as long as you give credit to the original creator, and you share any of your changes with the same license, this license is used by Wikipedia.
• No Derivative Works: allows you to use and share a work as long as you give credit to the original creator, but you're not allowed to make changes to it.
Go to the Creative Commons' About the Licenses web page information.
Where do I go?
The Creative Commons Search will search for images, videos, music, websites, and other media by searching other search services such as Flickr, Jamendo, Open Clip Art Library, Pixabay, and ccMixter.
Note: You should always verify the work is actually under a Creative Commons license by following the link presented with the work.
Source from http://creativecommons.org/about