Creative Commons, the public interest group that supports a re-use and fair-use friendly copyright license structure, has created a new search engine, http://search.creativecommons.org/ which makes it very easy to search for copy friendly images across several large image sites, including Google Images, Flickr, Yahoo!, blip.tv and others.

This allows you to be sure that the images you retrieve in your searches have been marked by their authors under a Creative Commons Copyright license, which means you can use them in your classes, courses, and research, without having to worry about infringement.

The Cape Town Declaration on Open Education was recently formally released to the public (1, 2) after its initial release for comments to the educational community last fall in the wake of the Cape Town conference.

It is a formal declaration of basic principles for the future conduct of education and organized teaching using standards of open content and sharing of resources, information, and curriculum. In part, it says:

This emerging open education movement combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet. It is built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint…
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Yes, a wonderful Graphic Novel called Bound By Law which teaches Teachers and others without super powers about their rights under Fair Use. And the book is legally sound, as it is a production of Duke University School of Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain.

You can read the graphic novel online or order it in paper copy. Either way, it is covered by a Creative Commons copyright license.