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Using Free (Public Domain) Materials for Teaching Purposes

Some public domain and open access websites contain resources such as images and clip art that are royalty free, or have a creative commons licence. This means you do not need the permission of the copyright owner or reliance on an educational licence to use the material contained in these sites. Never-the-less, before using any material from any internet site always check that you understand the Terms of Use of material on that site. These are usually found under headings such as 'Copyright', 'Terms of Use', 'About this site' or 'Legals'. 

The following sites may be a useful starting point:

• Creative Commons (CC): Creative commons provides access to licensed media that you can legally share and reuse freely. Under a Creative Commons Licence, the creator retains copyright while allowing others to copy and distribute copyrighted work under the conditions stipulated in the licence. Attibution is the minimum requirement for using resources licenced under Creative Commons.
  
  The Smartcopying site, established to provide copyright information for schools and TAFEs has a Creative Commons Information Pack, which is a useful starting point to find out about more about using Creative Commons Licenced resources.

• Australian Creative Resources Online (ACRO): A repository for open and CC-licensed creative content. 
• Copyright on the Internet Index of Online Resources:  Links you to public domain, open access, and sites of interest for still images, clip art, video, animation, and sound.
• AICT (Art Images for College Teaching): A Free Use Educational Resource of Art Images.
• Pics4Learning: Copyright-friendly images for education.
• Microsoft Clipart: Microsoft Office clip art can be used for personal or educational use.

Please contribute: If you know of a free site that may be useful to your UNE Colleagues, please send the URL to copyright@une.edu.au for inclusion on this list.