1.) Creative Commons is a non-profit international organization that allows people to freely and safely license their art. The art could be in the form of a picture, drawing, speech, video, document, etc., and the person licensing is responsible for setting the regulations on sharing of individual works. The images found in Creative Commons differs greatly from Google images in that there are copyright laws embedded in the source that is readily available from Creative Commons.
2.)http://creativecommons.org/
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