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.

• Commons on Flickr search images from the world's public photography archives 

• Openverse

• Flickr: Creative Commons Search

• Google Image: Creative Commons Search use "usage rights menu" to select "Creative Commons licenses"

• Internet Archive: public domain, downloadable video, text, and audio collections

• Picasa: Creative Commons Search

• Project Gutenberg Digital Library

• WikiMedia Commons database with public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips)

• Yahoo Image Search  after running your search, click on Filter > Usage rights to limit your results by licenses type (creative commons, public domain, etc.)