Copyright-Free or Copyright-Friendly Resources
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Working on a multimedia or web-based project?
Here are some great resources to use which are copyright-free or copyright-friendly.
Be sure to give credit to your sources.  Ask for permission when needed. Copyright-Friendly Images and Sounds from librarian Joyce Valenza
http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/cfimages.html

teacherlibrarianwiki:  Copyright Friendly images
http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/Copyright%20Friendly%20Image%20Sources

Wikimedia Commons
A database of 2,406,277 and growing freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Search Creative Commons
Find Creative Commons-licensed media that you can legally share and reuse for free.
http://search.creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons website
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
http://creativecommons.org/

The Internet Archive:  Open Source Audio
Also use or download moving pictures or video
http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio

Free Play Music:  Free music downloads
http:/freeplaymusic.com
Created by Rita Nannini and Kim Zito.

Last Modified: May 13, 2008