Resources

We’ve compiled some resources that can add to your knowledge, expand your projects and give more information about the goals and values at Makerspace

Copyright and Creative Commons

Everyone likes to be recognized for their work, and have it respected. This is no different for digital works. It can get complicated to understand all of these different topics so we’ve compiled some resources to help you. Check out our helpful links below to learn more about Creative Commons, copyright, and the public domain.

About Different Types of Creative Commons Licenses

TRU Intellectual Property Office page on Copyright basics

UBC About Public Domain (includes links to public domain resources)

TRU Open Learning Copyright Flowchart (Do you pass copyright?)

Creative Commons Free Resources

There are websites dedicated to resources that, depending on their copyright license, anyone can use free of charge and can be altered and edited. Remember to pay attention to the license label.

If you have a great creative commons free resource that’s not listed here please let us know!

Unsplash
Unsplash has photos licensed under their website’s version of a Creative Commons Zero license.

Pexels
Pexels offers free images released under their website’s version of a Creative Commons Zero license.

Pixabay
Pixabay offers free images released under their website’s version of a Creative Commons Zero license.

Flickr
About Flickr here. When searching uses the filters to ensure you are finding images that use the appropriate license for the work you want to do.

Pexels
Pexels offers free videos released under their website’s version of a Creative Commons Zero license.

Pixabay
Pixabay offers free videos released under their website’s version of a Creative Commons Zero license.

Videezy
“Videezy Standard content is free content that is available to be downloaded for personal, educational, commercial and editorial use with attribution. If you don’t want to give attribution you must purchase a Commercial Use license with credit”

Videvo
“Videvo offers free stock videos and motion graphics for use in any project. You may use these video clips free of charge, in both personal and commercial productions. Video clips that carry the Creative Commons 3.0 license must be attributed to the original author. “

Videvo
“Videvo offers royalty free music for use in any project. You may use these video clips free of charge, in both personal and commercial productions.”

Check out this list for a list of free STL/3D printer files and models.

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