You can help promote creative commons in a variety of ways.
All my images have a creative Commons license on them.
Jon Lucas, Bristol East GP This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
The open source movement and Creative Commons licensing are examples of people willing to share their intellectual labor to help others.
Most of the images found on Creative Commons come to the site via Yahoo's Flickr, and all are free of copyrights and restrictions.