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Finding and
Using Media
Legally
Dawn Wolf
Director of Information Systems
Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls
Finding and Using Media
Legally!
 If you’re looking for content that you can freely and
legally use, there is a giant pool of CC-licensed creativity
available to you. There are hundreds of millions of works
from songs and videos to scientific and academic
material available to the public for free and legal use
under the terms of our copyright licenses, with more
being contributed every day.
Creative Commons
Licensing
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Creative Commons Licensing
Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
• Increasingly, authors and producers
and choosing to label their works with
Creative Commons licenses.
• These licenses allow people to reuse
an author’s work under certain
conditions.
• In general attribution is required.
Attribution?
 at·tri·bu·tion n. 1. The act of attributing, especially the act
of establishing a particular person as the creator of a
work of art.
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
Google Image Advanced Search
Yahoo Image Advanced Search
Use the advanced settings to refine
your results to copyright free.
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
The Wikimedia Commons is packed with images and
other works that are labeled for reuse.
Check the licensing statement for each image before
reusing.
Some images require attribution while others are in the
public domain and do not require attribution.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
• Collection contains thousands of images.
• Use images for free in academic or commercial
presentations.
• Searched by:
• subject category,
• image size,
• color, or rating.
Http://www.morguefile.com/
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
 Flickr is a hugely popular photo sharing website.
 It can be a good source of images, *but not everyone labels
their images for reuse.
 Use the advanced settings to find images labeled for
reuse.
Http://www.flickr.com/
Flickr Advanced Search
Resizing your Pictures
 Microsoft Picture Manager
 pre-defined sizes for websites and emails
 Zoner Photo Studio Free
 Free Image Editor
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
 PodSafe Audio provides music tracks for use in
podcasts, videos, and other multimedia projects.
http://www.podcastfaq.com/resources/podsafe-audio/
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
 The Free Sound Project is comprised of sounds (not
music) that can be reused with attribution.
 In order to download sounds from The Free Sound
Project you do need to register for an account.
Http://www.freesound.org/
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Music and Sound
http://freemusicarchive.org/
 The Free Music Archive provides free, high-quality,
music in a wide range of genres. The content on Free
Music Archive is used under various creative commons
licenses.
 Anyone can download music from FMA for use in
podcasts and videos.
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Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Free Sound Editors
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
 Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder
for Windows, Mac You can use Audacity to:
 Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital
recordings or CDs.
 Edit MP3, or WAV and other sound files. Cut, copy, splice
or mix sounds together.
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Free Sound Editors
Audioboo
 Mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to
record and share audio
http://audioboo.fm/
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Free Sound Editors
 Myna is a free web-based audio track mixer created by
Aviary. Using Myna you can mix together up to ten
tracks to create your own audio files.
http://aviary.com/tools/myna
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Music and Sound
 Sound Bible is a resource for finding and downloading
free sound clips, sound effects, and sound bites.
 All of the sounds on Sound Bible are either public
domain or labeled with a Creative Commons license.
 You can find sounds for use in podcasts, videos, and
slideshows.
http://soundbible.com/
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Creating Digital Stories beyond Slides
Quickly create a video using still images, music, video
clips, and text. If you can make a slideshow presentation,
you can make a video using either…
 Windows Movie Maker (MS Office)
 Animoto
http://animoto.com/
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Creating Digital Stories beyond Slides
Masher
 Masher is a great, free, tool for creating video mash-ups.
offers a large collection of video clips from the BBC's
Motion Gallery and Rip Curl video.
 There is a large music library, an effects library, and a
good selection of video player skins.
 Http://masher.com
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Inexpensive and “Almost Free” Images and Sound
 iStock Photo
 Credits based on type and size of file downloading.
www.istockphoto.com/
 Royalty Free Music
 music tracks that can be reused in numerous ways.
 charges the general public for their downloads.
http://www.stockmusic.net/
Finding and Using Media Legally!
Other Open Source and Free
 Microblogging - Create an account on Twitter.
 Follow other catechetical and pastoral leaders.
 Check out Brad West's article Go Tweet It On The Mountain Top .Tweet out
information about your parish.
 Explore use of twitter for conferences or meetings for sharing ideas.
 Blogging - Use Google Blogger, Edublogs or WordPress to create you
blog. Use Microsoft Word to publish to your blog on your parish website
 Learning Management System – Moodle - A free, open-source PHP web
application for producing modular internet-based courses.
Resources
 Catholic Technology Magazine
 Catholic Techtalk
 Komando.com
 TechRepublic
 richardbyrne @freetech4teachers.com