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How the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) NFT Can Help You Protect Your Artwork
A new type of NFT is sweeping the market, and it could make a huge difference to your NFT collection.
How to Apply a Creative Commons License to Your Work
Adding a CC license to your work is critical if you want the public to know the terms and permissions of your work. Let's show you how to apply one.
Microsoft Store Survey, Virtual Beer in the Metaverse, and Fixing a Cracked Phone Screen
Learn about Microsoft's latest user survey and learn how to fix a cracked smartphone screen with our weekly tech podcast for technophobes.
What Is Creative Commons and Non-Commercial Use?
What is Creative Commons? What does "non-commercial use" mean? We explain Creative Commons licenses and how they work.
5 Stock Video Sites for Royalty-Free Footage and Specific Types of Videos
Stock video footage is in demand. These websites will meet all your needs for royalty-free videos you can use in any creative project.
7 Free Stock Sites to Download Copyright-Free Illustrations and No-Attribution Vectors
Are you searching for royalty-free illustrations to create beautiful designs? Try these websites for no-attribution, copyright-free images.
The 14 Best Sites to Find Free Creative Commons Music
Need to get hold of royalty-free Creative Commons music? Find everything you need for your projects on these sites.
CC Search Helps You Find Creative Commons Images
CC Search lets you search through 300 million images that are free to use under a Creative Commons license.
Flickr Promises Not to Delete Creative Commons Photos
Flickr's new owners have promised not to delete photos uploaded under a Creative Commons license. Which is extremely good news.
You Can Now Try the New Creative Commons Search Engine
Creative Commons has launched a new search engine to help you find free-to-use images from a range of sources.
Clip Art Is Gone! Here's How To Find Free Images Instead
Microsoft killed clip art and replaced it with Bing Image Search, which in Office filters for Creative Commons images. It's one of many resources and you can still find clip art elsewhere.
How To Find Legal Free Music Downloads & Create Playlists From Streaming Music [Sound Sunday]
Week for week, we have been sharing legal free music downloads. With few exceptions and despite many changes, Sound Sunday never took off. Thus it's time for it to retire.
Modern Jazz Music To Lean Back & Chill [Sound Sunday]
Jazz is the ultimate instrumental music. Not only does it often not contain lyrics, you also won't be distracted by catchy melodies. Pick up your legal free music downloads.
Open Source Software Licenses: Which Should You Use?
Did you know that not all open source licenses are the same?
Need A Soundtrack? Download Free Creative Commons Music [Sound Sunday]
Music is free to download and comes with a Creative Commons license that allows you to share the material, if you give attribution, use it non-commercially, and don't distribute derivatives.
Find Legal Images On Google With A New Filter
Contrary to popular belief, pictures found on Google Images are not free to use any way you want. Google have implemented a search filter that will show you the images which are legal to use.
3 Career-Changing Reasons To License Your Work With Creative Commons
Think of Creative Commons as a marketing tool that can pay off with huge rewards down the road. Do you license your work under it? If not, here are three strong reasons why you should.
5 More Places to Help You Find Quality Creative Commons Images
There are lots of reasons you might need to find Creative Commons images. Last year, we introduced you to five great places to find Creative Commons images, with the list including heavyweights like Flickr and Google Image Search, along with a few more services you might not have heard of. Today we're updating that list, and adding 5 more services that take the hard work out of finding Creative Commons images.
CCMixter - Free Samples, Loops & Songs For Remixing, Sampling, & Using In Your Projects
Today we'll be looking at one of the web's best truly free resources for audio material - be it samples of instruments, drum loops, a capellas or even full songs. If you've been thinking of trying your hand at a few remixes and some music creation but have struggled to find samples then look no further.
Prelinger Archives: Thousands Of Old Films To Watch, Remix & Use In Your Own Projects [Stuff to Watch]
In 1982, writer and filmmaker Rick Prelinger starting assembling a collection of films that would later become known as the Prelinger Archives. The films are all considered of cultural importance to the United States, depicting everyday life, social and environmental change and history through the medium of moving images. Of the many tens of thousands of films, around 65% are in the public domain.