What is Public Domain and Creative Common?

Public Domain and/or Creative Commons Material

Videos: Youtube

Youtube is a video-sharing website. The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report and comment on videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can only watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos and add comments to videos. The default settings when uploading a video to YouTube will have a copyright on the video for the uploader, but since July 2012, it has been possible to select a Creative Commons license as the default, allowing other users to reuse and remix the material if it is free of copyright. 

Images: Google

Technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google Images is a search service owned by Google, that allows users to search the Web for image content. The default settings when looking for a Creative Common image you can set when looking for a Creative Common license photo.

Sounds: SoundCloud

SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds, SoundCloud's content is music and other audio. Some of SoundCloud's features is the ability to allow artists to upload their music with a URL. Within SoundCloud, Creative Commons license, creators have the choice to give up certain rights associated with copyright, while retaining others. If you would like to apply a Creative Commons license and you have a respective SoundCloud license there are six different licenses that provide users with different levels of freedom. After you upload a track or playlist, you can select which license you would like to use for your content on SoundCloud.