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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!

To explore new trends copyright licensing, view these presentations:

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Major Portals

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  • 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.

  • FlickrCC Blue Mountains Displays attribution

  • openphoto: Free stock images. Use categories on the right to browse or click on search in the top bar

  • Library of Congress Photo Stream on Flickr

  • Wikimedia Commons: A database of 14 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

  • Creative Commons Search Flickr, Yahoo!, Google, OWL Music Search, SpinXpress, and BlipTV to "find Creative Commons-licensed media that you can legally share and reuse for free"

  • Free Digital Photos

  • Pics4Learning Copyright friendly images for education

  • 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 Pictures - high resolution photos and illustrations under public domain license

  • FreeFoto.com

  • FreeMediaGoo

  • Picsearch

  • ccMixter : creative commons music

  • imageafter or Kitzu is a resource for copyright friendly digital resources that students can use to create digital projects. Kitzuprovides "kits" of images, videos, documents, and audio clips organized thematically. You can browse the Kitzu kits by subject and by grade level.

  • Morgue File sounds like a website that would feature weird photos and images, but actually it's just an odd name for a good website that provides free photos. The Morgue File photo collection contains thousands of images that anyone can use for free in academic or commercial presentations. The image collection can be searched by subject category, image size, color, or rating.

  • Resize Image is a simple web-based tool for resizing images. You do not have to create an account or provide any type of information in order to use Resize Image. Simply upload an image, select the size that you would like it to be, click "save changes" and Resize Image does the rest. Once your image is resized you have the option of downloading it to your computer, cropping it, or resizing it again. Resize Image accepts JPEG and PNG files. The service is quick even with very large, high definition images.

  • 360 Cities, a panoramic image collection that I've written about in the past, now publishes an embed code with each image. This is a great improvement to the service as it will allow students and teachers greater flexibility when building virtual tours. The imagery in 360 Cities, as you will see in the image below, is much better than that typically found in Google's Street View imagery.

  • WP Clipart -nearly 24,000 safe public domain images.

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