Resources+-+Copyright+Friendly

=Copyright Friendly Images and Music=

Despite common practice, the availability of images and sound on the World Wide Web does not provide the right to copy and reproduce for personal and/or professional reasons. The use of the images or sounds generally requires the permission of the creator or owner.

However, a number of copyright-friendly archives are now available. The sources include government archives offering liberal use, media in the public domain, and collections of material posted by their creators with the definite purpose of sharing their work or seeing it grow and mix. [|Creative Commons] is a license that allows creators to maintain a copyright while allowing users the right to reuse, reproduce, and change software or files.

[|Joyce Valenza] posted the following list of her personal favourite copyright friendly archives:

Images

 * [|Flickr's Creative Commons Pool]: Browse through the images provided by [|Flickr] users who have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license
 * [|openphoto]: Free stock images. Use categories on the right to browse or click on //search// in the top bar
 * [|US Government Photos and Multimedia] Most materials in the public domain, but read the disclaimers.
 * [|Wikimedia Commons]: a database of 1,815,754 [|freely usable] media files to which [|anyone can contribute].
 * [|Common Content:] an open catalog of Creative Commons licensed content
 * [|Creative Commons] Search Flickr, Yahoo!, Google, OWL Music Search, SpinXpress, and BlipTV to "find [|Creative Commons]-licensed media that you can legally share and reuse for free"
 * [|Yotophoto:] indexes over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and other copyleft images
 * [|Pics4Learning] Copyright friendly images for education
 * [|MorgueFile]"provides the public and creative community with free raw photo materials"

Music

 * [|Shambles: Sound Effects and Music] Comprehensive portal collection by Chris Smith
 * [|Educational CyberPlayGround: Get Music Downloads] Links to portals and useful guidance
 * [|Open Source Audio] from the Internet Archive
 * [|Incompetech Royalty Free Music]
 * [|Opsound] Copyright friendly sound "Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine."
 * [|Partners in Rhyme]: Free Sound Effects
 * [|Partners in Rhyme: Free Music Loops]
 * [|Soundzabound Music Library]

It is imperative to aways check individual licensing notices before publishing on the Web or broadcasting!