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Images, Audio and Video

Images, Audio and Video

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
 
Getty Images: BBC Motion Gallery (use Royalty Free section)
From the BBC’s first broadcast in 1922, up to yesterday’s news, BBC Motion Gallery gives you exclusive access to the world’s most comprehensive collection of unique motion imagery. Spanning news, sport, natural history, wildlife, locations, celebrities, culture, and more, there is a wealth of content just waiting to be discovered.
 
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
 
 
Wikimedia Commons
A database of 23,260,653 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
 
Yale Digital Commons
Search 1,500,000 records; 250,000 digital assets from across Yale's collections.
Music

Music

ccMixter is an international community of 40,000 musicians. We create all original pells and samples and then co-create completed tracks collaboratively — all licensed under Creative Commons. You can listen to, sample, and interact with our music.
 
Free Music Archive
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.
 
Freeplay Music
15,000 songs, free music for YouTube and more.
 
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
 
National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
 
The Freesound Project
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds.