Legal Sources for Multimedia Projects

Please note you will need to check the terms of use and / or copyright for each individual work. This is not an endorsement of any of these sites or products.

• AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials (Duke University) thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980.

• A/V Geeks Film Archive (Internet Archive)

• Community Video (Internet Archive) subcategories with other languages also available.

• Free Movie Catalog (Entertainment Magazine)

• Library of Congress American Memory Collection, Motion Pictures

• Moving Image Archive (Internet Archive)

• OpenFlix

• Prelinger Archives (Internet Archive) over 2,000 films in the public domain.  Please read the Rights column.

• Public Domain Comedy Videos

• Public Domain Flicks

• Sandbox from WGBH Lab

• YouTube U.S. Government channel  (please note that these videos are in the public domain since they are produced by United States government)

A Fair(y) Use Tale by Eric Faden, Professor at Bucknell University

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, A Future of Public Media Project, funded by the Ford Foundation from the Center for Social Media.

Films in the U.S. Public Domain from OpenFlix

Video Copyright Information from Mount Holyoke College