YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts

Finding Material You Can Use and Remix for Free

Do you like the saying "Information wants to be free"? I do. So, let's look at some places to get you some free information that you can combine with your own original information to create some new information.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons runs several sites where you can get Creative Commons content, in all media types and on all subjects. CC Audio

http://creativecommons.org/audio (URL 6.26)

is a great place to get Creative Commons–licensed background music, and samples for remixing, free. BlipTV is a video-specific Creative Commons site:

http://creativecommons.org/video (URL 6.27)

The Creative Commons–run remixing site, ccmixter.org, provides material to remix and provides a forum to upload your audio remixes; you also can use other people's remixes from that site in your work:

http://ccmixter.org/ (URL 6.28)

Flickr

Flickr has millions of images and video, some of it high-rez, much of it licensed as Creative Commons, from all over the world. My friend Skip moved to a tiny town in China and I asked him to email me photos of his town. He said, "Just search the town name on Flickr. There are already hundreds of photos of it on there." Flicker is at www.flickr.com (URL 6.29). See also Figure 6-7.

Figure 6-7. Flickr.com website.

You can find pretty much anything on Flickr. Just be sure to download the highest-rez version and read the license ...