Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!)

for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.

Most of the media in these collections are attached to generous copyright licensing. Though you may not need to ask permission to use them when publishing on the Web for educational purposes, you should cite or attribute these images to their creators unless otherwise notified! If you see any copyright notices on these pages, read them for further instructions. Note: always check individual licensing notices before publishing on the Web or broadcasting! And for guidance in using copyrighted materials, consult the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. Portals

• Flickr's Creative Commons Pool: Browse through the images provided by Flickr users who have chosen to offer their pictures under a Creative Commons license. A Flickr Advanced Search also allows you to search for these images easily.

• Flickr Storm (select appropriate Creative Common license from pull-down menu) • FlickrCC Blue Mountains Displays attribution • Compfight: A Flickr Search Tool • Flickr Free Use Photos Photo sharing, no attribution necessary • Beholdcc Use the boxes before you search to select licensing • Shahi Visual Dictionary (check for licensing, many are CC and Wiktionary) • Flickr: The Commons (contributions from major institutions) • openphoto: Free stock images. Use categories on the right to browse or click on search

in the top bar • BurningWell (public domain, high resolution photos) • Compfight.com • 25 Free Stock Photo Sites • Photl • 26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog • Creativity103.com (abstract backgrounds) • Photos8 (public domain photos) • OpenClipArt.org • Sevenload.com • VADS: Free Art and Design Images for Education (Read Terms of Use) • US Government Photos and Multimedia Most materials is in the public domain, but read

the disclaimers. • Library of Congress Photo Stream on Flickr

• Yahoo Creative Commons Search • Wikimedia Commons: A database of 14 freely usable media files to which anyone can

contribute. o Images by type o Wikimedia Commons-Images-Science o Wikimedia Commons-Images-Nature o Wikimedia Commons-Images-Society

• Creative Commons A multimedia CC search, searches across Google, Flickr, Yahoo!, BlipTV, SpinXpress, and OWL Music Search, allowing searchers to specify a search for media to use to modify or for commercial purposes

• Jeff Bailey's Tech Tool Kit • Fotogenika • Free Digital Photos • Pics4Learning Copyright friendly images for education • GetMedia • MorgueFile "provides the public and creative community with free photos.. • Free Pixels:images may be used for both personal and commercial purposes under the

limitations of this license • Free Photos Bank • stock.xchng • PD Photo • Public Domain Photos and Wallpaper • Public Domain Pictures - high resolution photos and illustrations under public domain

license • Public Domain Images Public domain images (copyright friendly -safe images), royalty

free stock photos. All photos on this site are top quality high resolution public domain images, explicitly placed in the public domain.

• FreeFoto.com • 4 Free Photos - collection of over 700 free images offered by the photographer • Free Photo 1 • OurMedia • FreeMediaGoo • Picsearch • AnimalPhotos.info • CarPictures.cc • Images for Education (for UK higher ed.)

Other portals (some subject-specific)

• Smithsonian Flickr PhotoStream • Flickr/Library of Congress: The Commons: Goals--To increase access to publicly-held

photography collections and to provide a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge. (Check for licensing on individual images.)

• ArtServe:art and architecture from the Mediterranean, India, Japan, and Cambodia) • PBase World Gallery (amateur photos organized by country) • Digital Librarian Images (check for licensing) • GeekPhilosopher • American Memory Collection: Library of Congress. (click on "Photos and Prints" and

check the "Copyright and Restrictions" section for each collection) • American Memory Maps Collection

• America From the Great Depression to World War II: FSA/OWI 1935-1945 American Memory collection

• Art Images for College Teaching • Open ClipArt Library • Centre for Bioscience ImageBank • Daguerreotype Portraits and Views 1839-1864 • Department of Agriculture Image Gallery • Department of the Interior Photo Resources Library • Graphic Maps.com • Great Images in NASA (GRIN) • Hamilton Museum of Art • Incomptech - Royalty Free Music; Search by Genre or "Feel" of Music • Images of American Political History • Internet Moving Images Archive (read Conditions of Use) • Metropolitan Museum of Art (Please read copyright info on

http://www.metmuseum.org/copyright.htm) • NARA's Search Tools • NARA's (National Archives and Records Administration) NAIL Search • NASA Image Exchange • NASA Multimedia Gallery • NASA Photo Archive • NASA's Planetary Photojournal • National Health Museum(AccessExcellence) • National Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine • Picture Collection Online (New York Public Library) • NOAA Photo Library (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) • NOAA - National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library • Public Health Image Gallery • Picturing the Century: 100 Years of Photography • Science Images • Science Images (Earth Zone) • Selected Civil War Photographs • Springer Images (scientific images with liberal licensing, read the Copyright restrictions) • Training Reference: Images for Learning Materials • US Air Force Link: Photos and Art • US Fish and Wildlife Services Images • US Geological Service Photographic Library • US Navy Images • USDA Historical Photos • UTOPIA (UT Austin) Portrait Gallery (historical figures) • Pics4Learning • University of Cambridge List of Freely Available Images Links

EduPic Graphical Resource - Free Photographs and Graphics for Education