We can easily find images to use on our blogs. Just need to search on Google, Bing or Yahoo. to find an image. But is that legal? Does we have the rights to use that images?
According to Wikipedia “A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created.”
You don’t have rights to use copyrighted images on your blog. But it’s not easy to find image Creative Commons images. Today we have to list 12 websites to find royalty free images for commercial use.
1. Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org
2. Flickr Creative Commons – https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
3. Pixabay – http://pixabay.com
4. CC Search – http://search.creativecommons.org
5. Image Source – http://www.imagesource.com
6. Corbis – http://www.corbisimages.com
7. Free Digital Images – http://www.freedigitalphotos.net
8. Free Images – http://www.freeimages.com
9. Morgue File – http://morguefile.com
10. Image Free – http://www.imagefree.com
11. Free Range Stock – http://freerangestock.com
12. IM Free – http://www.imcreator.com