Legally using video in your projects

Downloading from YouTube with a 3rd party service is a violation of YouTube’s terms of service (section 5) unless there is a download link provided by YouTube. Making a screencast of a YouTube video is also a violation of the terms of service as well as being a likely copyright infringement. You may embed a You Tube video in your site if the owner has included the embed code.

Below are a few places to find video clips that are legal to use in your personal or school project.

Youtube offers the option to browse Creative Commons-licensed content or filter your search results to only include Creative Commons-licensed videos. (attribution required)

The Public Domain Review is a website that features collections of images, books, essays, audio recordings, and films that are in the public domain. Choose any of the collections to search for materials according to date, style, genre, and rights. Directions for downloading and saving media is included along with each collection of media.

Flickr is known for hosting images, but it also hosts video clips. Use the advanced search functions in Flickr to find video clips that have been released into the public domain and to find videos that have a Creative Commons license attached to them.

Pixabay also offers public domain video clips that you can download for free. To find video clips on Pixabay simply choose "video" from the drop-down menu that appears in the right edge of Pixabay's search box.

Stockio offers a mix of public domain pictures and videos to download for free. To download a video from Stockio simply click the "download" button that appears to the right of all videos. Registration is not required in order to download videos from Stockio.

Pexels Videos offers hundreds of short videos that you can download for free and re-use in your own video productions. You can browse the collection or search according to keyword. The videos are stock footage and very few have any spoken words in them. You don't have register on the site in order to download Pexels Videos. Attribution is not required for most videos, but double-check before using a video that you've downloaded from Pexels Videos.

Vimeo offers the option to both browse content that is Creative Commons-licensed and to limit your search results to only Creative Commons-licensed content using their advanced filters.

WikiMedia Commons provides access to videos that are either in the public domain or available under a Creative Commons .

CreativeCommons.org allows you to search for Creative Commons-licensed content on several websites, including one devoted solely to video content.

Videvo offers completely free 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. Videvo includes over 5000 videos.

The Internet Archive’s Moving Image Archive is an index of more than 1.7 million video clips. Most of what you will find in the Moving Image Archive can be downloaded in a variety of file formats. Not all video is appropriate for school projects. Please work with your teachers to create a footage folder from the Internet Archive.

Mixkit provides free stock video and music clips, as well as Premiere Pro Templates.

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