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Lifehacker has a useful article about finding media with reusable licenses such as Creative Commons or GNU Free Documentation License. They list several search engines tailored specifically for this and also some tips you can use to find such media with your usual search engine of choice.

Now, I was going to post about this story and then add a nice little edited Creative Commons licensed image to show my support for sharing your work and allowing others to creative derivative works, but as I got into reading about the different licenses and discussions regarding their usage, I realized it was all very vague on some points and more than a little confusing. Their FAQ answered some of my questions, but left enough unanswered, especially in regards to attribution, to persuade me into not using a CC licensed image.

It would take the patience of Gandhi to figure all that out. Well, not really, but I wanted to use this public domain picture of him that I masked out and made a “derivative work” from.