To assist you in finding resources that are not copyrighted, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with Creative Commons. Creative Commons is an initiative that provides licensing options that span between copyrighted and public domain. You can learn more about Creative Commons on their website here. Creative commons licensed images are free to share (see license chart below for different permissions, such as non-commercial or commercial use, free to modify, etc.). Images still require attribution. To learn more about how to attribute a Creative Commons licensed resource, please visit the following resource.
Finding openly licensed images
There are several excellent sources for findings high quality images and graphics online. Some use licenses similar to Creative COmmons and simply require the attribution and a link to the original author.
https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
General Open Content Search Tools
https://wordpress.org/openverse
https://search.creativecommons.org/
Open Teaching Resources
OER Commons (https://oercommons.org/)
https://hyperdocs.co/teachersgiveteachers
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/
Openly Licensed Text
Openly Licensed Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Openly Licensed Video
https://www.pexels.com/videos/
Open Data
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/open-data
https://open.canada.ca/en/using-open-data
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