Aug 26 2007
Open content
Open content - in short - is freely available content like books, music, photos, training manuals, lesson plans, websites.
There are immense online databases which you can surf to to access all this material and use it in your research, website or in any other creative content you are working on at the moment.
To see examples visit Wikipedia or the Internet Archives or visit this page to see a more complete list of sites with open content.
You can also use our Freedom Toaster to access some of the freely available materials as it contains the Gutenberg CD - which includes the Bible, works of Shakespeare and other popular books amongst other things.
Each book or other material found in these online databases has its own open content license that explains what you can and cannot do with that specific content - click here to visit the Creative Commons site that explains the difference between some of these licenses. While some works belong to the public domain and you are free to use them in any way you like, others can only be read and performed but not sold or changed etc.
