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How to find free music, images, and video you can use or remix in your own creative works
Below you will find a list of services and websites that provide content that you can use as building blocks in your own works. From music, to video, to images, these services give you public domain and/or openly licensed (ie. Creative Commons licensed) content that you can reuse in your own work.
MUSIC / AUDIO
CCMixter :"This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Music on this site is licensed under Creative Commons licenses. You are free to download and sample from music on this site and share the results with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Some songs might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses. Each submission is marked clearly with the license that applies to it."
OPSounds :"All sounds in the Opsound pool are released under the Creative Commons Attributioni-ShareAlike license (a copyleft license similar to those used in the free and open source software communities) or are placed in the public domain (the license information for each song can be found under the song link."
Incompetech: "This one is super easy to browse through. You can search song by genre, feel or keywords. "By default, they are licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. To use this license, simply attribute the music in your piece (website, film, phone system, etc.) as is reasonable to the medium. (more info on attribution). There is no cost to use music under the Creative Commons License."
SectionZ :" On SectionZ.com we use the audio specific licenses........Each of the Creative Commons icons means something regarding the type of conditions for each license. For an explaination of the Creative Commons icons that appear below"
Jamendo: Has a great deal of Creative Commons licensed music, and also sells various types of licenses to reuse music in certain ways.
Indabamusic.com: Perhaps a glimpse at the future of music, this site offers an opportunity for musicians worldwide to collaborate and create together. Often holds contests and hosts a great deal of Creative Commons licensed work as well.
VIDEO
StockFootageForFree is a website dedicated to providing completely free stock footage from around the world that can be downloaded instantly and incorporated into any type of video editing project-personal or commercial. It seems you are required to create an account but it's worth the time. You can download each clip in either Standard Defintion (730x480 pixels) or High Definition(1920x1080 pixels) format. They are absolutely free and do not require you to give them credit. But hey, it's a nice thing to do.
US National Archives: http://video.google.com/videoadvancedsearch: You can use Googlei Video search to find works made by the Federal government which are almost all public domain and freely reusable. Use this search to find clips from NASA including lots of old newsreel footage.
VJVault.com: http://www.vjvault.com: VJ clip libraries are great places to find very short, often impressionistic, clips to use.
Blip.tv: http://spinxpress.com/getmedia: Blip.tv is a video sharing site which allows creative commons video to be shared. SpinXPress offers a search interface making it easier to find video content from blip.tv.
Flickr.com Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?: In the advanced search options you can find creative commons videos and photos. Videos are in flash format, so you’ll need a tool like TubeTV (mac) or AnyVideoConverter (PC) to download them.
IMAGES
FLICKR has an entire section devoted to Creative Commons images arranged and searchable by Attribution.
EveryStockPhoto has a search engine that aggregates free-to-use, public domain, and Creative Commons photographs from a variety of sources
Stock.Xchng provides thousands of Free to use images that you can use with few restrictions.
Google and Yahoo/Bing image search now offer searches for Creative Commons content to reuse in your works as well
MISC.
Internet Archive is a great place to find historical AUDIO, IMAGE, AND VIDEO files along with tons of other good stuff. The licensing varies from file to file but many will be either Creative Commons or in the Public Domaini.
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