LibGuides: Copyright: Open Use Media Resources

Open Use Media Collections

CC Search
Search created by CreativeCommons.org across multiple sites that offer media of all kinds with creative commons licenses.

American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
An internet based archive for public domain image resources, as well as audio, video, and archived Web content.
Cleveland Museum Open Access Collection
The Cleveland Museum of Art released more than 34,000 digital images of public domain works in high resolution.
ClipArt ETC
The Florida Center for Instructional Technology collection of clipart for use in non-commercial, non defamatory educational projects subject to minor restrictions.
Clker
An online sharing service where users share free public domain vector cliparts, or vector cliparts from public domain photos.
Freepik
A search engine of free vector designs. The majority of the resources offered at Freepik can be used for free with attribution.
Openclipart
"Each artist at Openclipart releases all rights to the images they share at Openclipart." Images are free to use for any purpose, commercial and non commercial.
Pexels.com
Images on Pexels are released under Creative Commons CC0 and can be used for personal or commercial purposes freely.
Pixabay
Images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0 and can be downloaded, modified, distributed, and used them royalty-free.
Wikimedia Commons
An online database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

ccMixter
A community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
freesound
Collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.
Incompetech
Royalty-free music site. Each piece on this site is available under different licenses and uses creative commons by attribution 3.0
National Jukebox (Library of Congress)
Historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge.
Musopen
Recordings, sheet music, and textbooks available to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.

Vimeo Creative Commons
A browse-able collection of Creative Commons licensed videos.
YouTube Creative Commons search
By appending “, creativecommons” (including the comma) to the end of your search term, you can filter for YouTube videos released with a creative commons license.
Internet Archive
Digital archive of Internet sites, audio recordings, moving images, and text.
Videvo
Videvo offers stock video footage and motion graphics for use in any project, commercial or non-commercial, through use of its own license or CC 3.0 license.