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Within Google advanced search, you can select the copyright/licensing level as a parameter of your search. At the bottom of the search box, there is a link that says, "Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more". Within that, you can select whether the searched content is free to use, share, modify or use commercially. I have not been successful in using it to find images that have licensing information, but there are many text examples. As best I can tell, in order to show up in a filtered list for licensing, the site must have their creative commons licensing embedded in the page.

There are many artists and musicians using Creative Commons as a way to share and build projects. I've found several pieces of old historical poetry or narrative that are listed as Creative Commons licensing. I'm not quite sure how that works; the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts, for example, has narratives for a huge number of Greek classics, English Rennaissance texts (i.e. Shakespeare), and personal diaries/narratives from pre-1900. Clearly writings that old are outside of copyright protections, but I guess they must have gotten permission from the owners of the documents, the translators, or the editors who compiled the documents.

Anyway, a discussion of Creative Commons definitely needs to be part of any information literacy conversation. I think that the concept of Creative Commons is something many kids intuitively understand - there are numerous examples that are part of pop culture (think Soulja Boy - if you aren't familiar with that, do a search on YouTube and see what comes up!)