Copyright-Friendly Resources

On Pixabay you may find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are published under Creative Commons public domain deed CC0. You must create an account to use this site.

Unsplash has beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty-free or stock photos.

Pexels offers free stock photos that have been submitted by photographers and made available for personal use with no attribution required.​

Photos for Class contains images that are licensed through Creative Commons, so they are available for use in the classroom and for educational purposes. 

MorgueFile contains free high resolution digital stock photographs and reference images for either corporate or public use. 

The Adobe Stock Free collection includes a limited  set of free photos, vectors, illustrations, and videos now available on Adobe Stock.

Freerange has thousands of high-resolution stock photos available at your fingertips at no cost. All of the website's images can be used for personal or commercial projects. 

Openverse Image Search is a search engine for finding digital content you can share, reuse, and remix.

CocoMaterial is an online library of nearly 2,500 clipart drawings that you can download and re-use for free. 

Browse and download free music and sound effects for your project.

Download Creative Commons Music / Royalty Free Music for free and use it in your project.

Search and download a large library of Royalty Free Music for free and use it in your project (must provide attribution to artist).

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.

SoundBible.com offers thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds and is a great source for copyright free sounds.

Purple Planet has a collection of royalty free music that can be used free of charge for web-based projects, e.g. YouTube (see 'Using Our Music' for more info) in exchange for a link to our site.

Free classical music catalog.

"Welcome to the Netlabels collection at the Internet Archive. This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of 'virtual record labels'."

Music discovery site operated by ArtisTech Media, founded by Creative Commons.

Musopen aims to "set music free" by providing music to the public free of charge, without copyright restrictions.

The next time you need common sounds like doorbells ringing, dogs barking, or car horns honking to use in a multimedia project you could turn to SoundGator to find free recordings that you can download. 

ZapSplat is a website that offers more than 20,000 sound effects and songs that you can download and re-use for free.

Easily create beautiful designs and documents with Canva.

Fotor is an online photo editing suite, utilizing exclusive technology to bring an unprecedented level of editing control to anyone and everyone.

Free image background remover.

With Pixlr X, you can make fine changes to colors and saturation, sharpen and blur images, apply vignette effects and frames, and combine multiple images. There's also support for layers, which you won't find in many free online photo editors, and an array of tools for painting and drawing. A great choice for even advanced tasks.

This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.

The best free stock videos shared by the Pexels community.

SplitShire offers great free video stock footage.

Dareful.com is your source for completely free 4K stock video clips that can be downloaded and used any way you want, forever! You never pay a dime.

You Already Have Permission: The music discovery site used in over 1 million videos and games.