I looked at the Creative Commons section of Flickr. You need to search by type of license, and I chose the "Attribution" license. Using the search box, I typed in Paris to find images of Paris, France. These were mostly beautiful, artistic scenes of Paris. When I used the browse search ("Browse Popular Tags" located beneath the search box), I found more personal images of people visiting Paris, people at meetings in Paris, and people attending Christmas mass at Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Creative Commons could be used as a resource for those who are concerned about whether the work they have chosen is copyrighted. Certainly many of these images look professional and could add to a typed report or published material.
I think Creative Commons should be included in library instruction as it is another tool available for people to use especially for those who may want to use images and are not sure about what is copyrighted.
I can see where some original content would be acceptable to share such as photographs, but some creative art work or writing may not. I asked my teenage daughter who is an artist and a writer about this; she said she would consider sharing her art work but not her writing. I can see both sides of this problem. I wonder too if people abide by the Creative Commons contracts and if anyone monitors them to see that they are not abused. It is a good option to copyright as those laws have become so restrictive.
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