copyright,
fair use & Creative Commons

Flickr Creative Commons
Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

Creatuve Commons Search
Browse over 500 million images, available for reuse

Every Stock Photo
"We are a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific."

Pixabay

Nrw York Public Library Digital Collections
Digital Collection.

Pics4Learning
"Permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection." Arranged by subject.

Smithonian Institute
The Smithsonian Institution Archives welcomes personal and educational use of its collections unless otherwise noted. Please cite the Smithsonian Institution Archives as the source of the content, and when possible, link to the Smithsonian Archives website (siarchives.si.edu).

Free Stock Images
Search for free stock images.

Stock Vault
More free stock images.

Wikimedia Commons
"A database of 5,220,649 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute."

Television News Archive
Television News Archive is a searchable collection of network news television broadcasts from 1968 to the present.

PBS Videos
Browse PBS videos.

American Memory, Motion Pictures
The American Memory project, from the Library of Congress, offers a plethora of copyright-free resources you can link to.

European Film Gateway
"Access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials...The EFG offers a look at and behind the scenes of filmmaking in Europe from the early days until today. The EFG facilitates online access to historical documents and leads you directly to the archives that hold the originals."

C-Span
Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987. Watch the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, the Challenger explosion, and much more.

Dig.ccmixter
"Dig.ccmixter is devoted to helping you find that great music, all of which is liberally licensed under a Creative Commons license so you already have permission to use this music in your video, podcast, school project, personal music player,"

Free Sound Project
"The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License."

Free Sound effects
Free sound effects.

Free Music Archive
Search music samples by genre and download for use in projects.

Free Sound Effects
More free sound effects.

BBC Library of Sound Effects
Browse the collection of sound effects by the BBC.