LibGuides: Copyright PD: Finding Creative Commons and Public Domain content online

The Public Domain: All The Details

Creative Commons Search
images
Photos for Class
images (with attribution automatically included!)
Flickr Creative Commons Collection
images
Pixabay
images
Burst
images
Black Illustrations
Images featuring people of color; one set is free to use (others must be purchased)
Unsplash
Images
Stockvault
images
Pexels
Free stock photos and images
Vecteezy
images, videos, vector images

Class Hook
curated snippets of TV shows and movies
Getty Museum Open Content
images and other artifacts
Internet Archive
images, music, video, text and more
NASA Image and Video Library
Public Domain intergalactic multimedia collections
Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse Sets
topical collections of copyright-free media: text, images, audio, video, and more.
NYPL Digital Collections
Prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more
Open Culture
textbooks and courses, images, video, audio and more
Pexels
images, video
Public Domain Review
literature, images
USA.gov
images, videos, text, maps, and more
Wikimedia Commons
images, sounds, videos
Wikipedia's list of public domain sources