[Maura A. Smale]

Here’s a list of resources for images, texts, and other materials you might want to use for your courses:

– Creative Commons-licensed materials: lots of images and other types of material that can be used with attribution only
http://search.creativecommons.org

– Wikimedia Commons: freely-usable images and other files
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

(and check out the other Wikimedia projects, including textbooks and other educational materials: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects)

– Copyright @ CUNY: resources for questions about copyright and fair use
http://www.cuny.edu/libraries/services/copyright.html

– The Center for Social Media at American University has put together several codes of best practices for fair use of different kinds of materials

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