Images, writing, videos and music are mostly all copyrighted which means they belong to someone and you can’t use someone's work without asking first, or having the person's permission. You can’t legally just find a picture on the internet and paste it into your assignment, presentation (eek!)

Creative Commons Licenses were invented to allow people to share their creations and allow others to use or build on them. When a person puts their photos, music or art online they can make it easy for others to know if they can use it by choosing a Creative Commons Licence for it. These licences mean “Yes you can use my thing, but these are the conditions”.

There are six types of licence, depending if you can change the original in any way or if you can use it to make money etc.

The founders of Creative Commons believe in giving the creators of knowledge and culture the freedom to create.

Watch the first video "Building on the Past" to understand this perspective.

Watch the first half of the "Creative Commons Kiwi" video to learn what the license mean in a practical sense.

If you want to find images using Google, follow these steps:

1. Type in your search

2. Choose "images" along the top

3. Click "tools" and select "usage rights", then "Creative Commons licences"

4. Pick an image that has the "licensable" icon on it.

5. When it pops up to the side of the screen, click "licence details" - this will explain which license the image has been given.

There are six kinds of licences for creative works. They allow (or prevent) the next person to do certain things with the original. Mainly these are:

• Whether someone can change the original in any way

• If they can use it to make money / sell products with the image on

• If the next person has to attribute it to the original author

• If the same license needs to be applied to the next version

Visit this site to read about the six kinds of licenses: https://foter.com/blog/how-to-attribute-creative-commons-photos/