Creative Commons Image Search serves as a portal to other services who possess images licensed under a Creative Commons agreement. These include Google Image and Flickr Image Commons. http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ Creative Commons images are in demand for website content managers who need photos or pictures to illustrate the latest post such as a football picture for a sports blog. Follow the various instructions below on how to search for creative commons images.

There are several videos below introducing you to Creative Commons, searching Google for Creative Commons Images, and a Firefox extension for Creative Commons.

Enter your search terms at the top of Creative Commons Image Search page. Click on the tab for the service of interest (e.g., Google Images) and check the displayed results. The search is restricted to pages that hold images under a "commons" license but always check that the image you choose has a license appropriate to your usage (e.g., allowed for commercial use or modification). Once you find the image of interest it can be downloaded or linked.

The services you can search are Google (web), Google Images, Yahoo (web), Flickr, blip.tv (video), jamendo (music), SpinXpress (media), and WikiMedia Commons. The one-stop search is the advantage of Creative Commons Image Search although one could search Creative Commons databases separately.

Here is a video to find Creative Commons images using Google Image (advanced) search:

The [Firefox browser] has a built-in Creative Commons Search.

If you want to add free audio clips to your web page or blog go to the Free Sound Project website.

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization whose mission is to make available content to the public for enhancing the body of knowledge. Creative Commons was launched in 2001.http://creativecommons.org/about/history Funding is provided by various foundations, companies, and individuals. There are no ads on the website. [https://support.creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons tries to build a culture of sharing and a community has arisen around it.

The number of US visitors in August 2009 was ~147K. according to Quantcast.comhttp://www.quantcast.com/creativecommons.org There are approximately 250 million licensed works as of July 2009. [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics

Wikipedia adopted Creative Commons License in June 2009 with its Wikimedia Commons database. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/15411

Gizmodo who broke the story on the prototype iPhone that compared the iPhone 4G vs iPhone 3GS has been chasing down those blogs who reprint their posting in entirety and the page has advertising. Gizmodo operates under a Creative Commons license although commentators find this ironic as they have posted "rights reserved" images themself.http://torrentfreak.com/gizmodo-caught-in-copyright-crossfire-100423/

MorgueFile is a public image archivewww.morguefile.com - attribution enjoyed.

SpinXpress.comhttp://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/buyersguide/article.php/3863576

Unprofound.comhttp://www.appscout.com/2010/02/unprofound_offers_royalty-free.php

Google

Flickr

Flickr Alternatives such as Bubblrhttp://www.b2boutsource.com/?p=157

Some applications that help you easily provide attribution to copyright-free images such as Flickr.

ImageCodrhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/07/imagecodr-is-an-awesome-way-to-link-to-creative-commons-flickr-i/ - places CC tag and attribution link automatically on images you use from Flickr.