There’s been a huge uproar lately about websites and blogs using other people’s content. I always publish my RSS feeds as short summaries, because I don’t usually have a problem with people linking to a post of mine and using my summary in the process. (That link is very important, though. It’s basically a give and take situation, and deleting the link is not acceptable.)

My content for my niche blogs usually consists of original articles that I’ve written specifically for my audience, articles from various article directories and posts about various pieces of information and different articles I’ve found online that would interest my readers. But even with all of this, I do have the occasional day where I don’t have anything to say (okay, that’s kind of rare … how about, days when I don’t have anything relevant to say?). And the latest articles from the article directories for that particular niche are too sales-y or hyped up or contain information that doesn’t sound too accurate or sound.

Enter the Creative Commons search page. Using this page, you can find images and articles that you can use for free, as long as you respect the rights reserved by the author. The various rights include: public domain, must give attribution, can’t use commercially, can’t make derivatives, and must sharealike (meaning you must grant the same licence).

Definitely a handy resource to bookmark.