Great Sources that are Copyright Friendly!

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Graphics

• Journalistic Photography
• World History
• American History
• Stock Photography

Audio

• Songs
• Sound Effects
• American History

Graphics (Photos, drawings, and More)

Journalistic Photography

• Life
  http://www.life.com/
  Professional photographs (mostly of famous people, places, things, and events) available for “personal, non-commercial use”.

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World History

• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
  http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
  “The Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.”
  
  The New York Public Library Digital Gallery Webpage
  

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American History

• Calisphere
  http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
  Pictures from California’s history.


• The American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
  Historical pictures, advertisements, maps, scanned historic documents, and more. Much of the material is in the public domain (available to use freely), but check individual items.
  
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Stock Photography
Stock photos are taken by photographers without a specific use in mind; they license the photos out for other people to use.

• Veezzle
  http://www.veezzle.com/
  Free stock photos.
  


• Stock.xchng
  http://www.sxc.hu/
  Free stock photos.
  
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Audio

Songs

• Jamendo
  http://www.jamendo.com/en/
  Free downloadable music. Be the first of your friends to discover a new band. Choose from over 300,000 tracks of everything from rock to classical.
  


• dig cc mixter
  http://dig.ccmixter.org/music_for_film_and_video
  This section has instrumental music, good for backgrounds. Please stick to the instrumentals, as many of the vocals are not appropriate for school use or listening.
  


• incompetech
  http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
  Peer past the ads to find a wide variety of music appropriate for soundtracks and more.
  
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Sound effects
No music, just all sorts of different sounds.

• SoundJay.com
  http://www.soundjay.com/
  Sound effects.
  


• Soungle
  http://www.soungle.com/
  Sound effects. (The previews are clips – you’ll generally download a much longer segment.)
  
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More!

• Creative Commons Search
  http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/?beta=1&q=
  Use the Creative Commons search page to find Creative Commons items through a variety of sites.


• Wikipedia
  http://www.wikipedia.org/
  Images used for Wikipedia articles should be either Creative Commons licensed, under public domain, or available for your use under some other permissions. To find out what the conditions are, click on the photo and scroll down to the 'Licensing' section.

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Thanks to Mrs. McCall’s Library Page for numerous helpful suggestions.

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