Creative Commons Media

A curated list of resources that provide media licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

Contributions are very welcome!

Started by https://github.com/shime/creative-commons-media

See also the extensive list by Brad Traversy Design resources for developers

Audio

• Adobe Sound Effects - Includes thousands of uncompressed, royalty-free audio sound effects. These files have been grouped together by type and style into ZIP archives that can be downloaded.
• Audio Archive - Internet Archive’s Audio Archive
• Bandcamp - Creative Commons tag on Bandcamp
• ccmixter - Loops and samples that are co-created into tracks.
• free-loops - Loops and audio clips.
• freesound - Collaborative database of sounds, mostly sound effects.
• Free Music Archive - The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses.
• Incompetech - Royalty free music from Kevin MacLeod.
• Jamendo - Musical albums. Requires login.
• Musopen
• Pond5 - Historic media files. Audio, video, images, 3d models.
• Tribe of Noise - Musical albums. Requires login.
• Youtube audio library of Music and sound effects
• Soundcloud’s Creative Commons Search

Graphics

• AllTheFreeStock - curated list of free stock images, graphics and videos. Includes extensive categories: mockups, website templates, colour inspiration, fonts, image tools.
• Altphotos - Handpicked free (CC0) high-resolution photos added daily.
• Art institute of Chicago - Public Domain artwork
• Blush.design - A great variety of collections includes integration with Figma and Sketch
• Color Our Collections - Libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world sharing free colouring sheets and books for printing, sharing and downloading.
• Compfight - Searches Flickr for images suitable for blogs, comps, inspiration and research.
• Creativity103 - Library of free abstract backgrounds, textures and design ideas.
• Find A Photo - Search through thousands of free (CC0 licensed) stock photos.
• GameIcons - SVG icons for board and video games.
• Good Free Photos - Thousands of free public domain photos categorized by geographic location
• Humaaaans - mix and match illustrations of people (similar to OpenPeeps)
• ImageBase - Collection of free photos.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - Open access artwork
• Morgue File - Photo collection with license to remix.
• New Old Stock - Vintage photos from pubilc archives free of known copyright restrictions
• New York Public Library Public Domain Collections - images, photos, digital artifacts
• Open Font Library
  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-SA - Open Fonts available under several open source licences

• OpenPeeps - A hand drawn illustration library. Works like building blocks (of vector arms, legs and emotions) that you can mix and match
• OpenDoodles - A hand drawn illustration library. Colour palette is customisable in the browser before you download images.
• Pexels - High quality free stock photos and videos

• Photo Pin - Milions of photos for bloggers and creatives.
• Photos8 - High quality stock photos.
• Pixabay - Photos, cliparts and artwork on CC0 licence. Requires login.
• Smithsonian Open Access - images and assets from the Smithsonian’s 19 museums. includes 3d assets too.
• The Noun Project - High quality icons and images. Requires login.
• The Public Domain Review - High quality PD images, books, films, and audio
• unDraw - Open source illustrations with customisable colours
• Unsplash - Library of high-resolution images.
• VisualHunt - Creative commons image search. Can also search by colour.
• WorldImages Kiosk - Library of 75,000 images that students can use in their academic projects.
• Wylio - Image search engine with focus on bloggers. Requires login.
• Flickr’s Creative Commons Search
• 500px’s Creative Commons Search

Video

• ACMI collection
• Associated Press Archive
• Biology videos collection by Dept of Biology Davidson College
• British Movietone -British Movietone is arguably the world’s greatest newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 to 1986.
• Mixkit - A gallery of high-quality videos and animation
• Moving Image Archive at Internet Archive
• National Film Board of Canada
• The Vidcommons Project - A PeerTube instance dedicated to media licensed under the Creative Commons and Public Domain.
• Pexels stock video
• Critical Commons - Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts. Critical Commons is also part of the technical and conceptual architecture of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture and the electronic authoring/publishing platform Scalar.
• The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture - The Alliance aims to close the gap between carefully created digital visual archives and scholarly publication by enabling scholars to work more organically with archival materials, creating interpretive pathways through the materials and enabling new forms of analysis.
• Vimeo’s Creative Commons Search
• Europeana - Explore 48,427,731 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe.

Open Data

• Geonames - The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.
• Google Dataset Search
• Grafiti - Search, discover and share charts from top publishers

Open Journals

• EdArXiv A Preprint Server For The Education Research Community
• DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
• Hybrid Pedagogy: the journal of critical digital pedagogy
• PLOS - Open access research articles
• Radical Open Access - a community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects

Open courseware

• Academic Earth
• Candela Learning
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• OpenIntro
• OpenStax College
• OpenYaleCourses - Free and open access to introductory courses. Majority of assets are CC BY-SA 3.0 license
• P2PU - Peer to peer university - all under CC BY-SA 4.0 license
• Siyavula Open Textbooks
• Skills Commons - Open Career training resources

3d Printing

• Thingiverse - from MakerBot

Misc

• Creative Commons’ Search
• Internet Archive
• Jurispedia - The shared law
• Wikimedia Commons
• Wikipedia - All under CC BY-SA license
• XKCD

Other awesome lists

• awesome-awesomeness

License

MIT