About copyright and Creative Commons:
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Images and photos
Need free images for a media or video project? These Web sites offer photographs and images which are public domain or Creative Commons licensed and free to use:
- Microsoft Office - Images, clip art and animations : a wide variety of stock photos and clip art.
- University of South Florida - Clip Art ETC : an interesting collection of public domain illustrations.
- Wikimedia Commons : a large collection of user-shared photos and media files which are free for anyone to use.
- Flickr.com : a huge collection of user-shared images; under Advanced Search, select Creative Commons content:
Free books!
Want to listen to Dracula on your iPod? Want to read The Raven on your device of choice?
- LibriVox.org : a large and growing collection of free audio versions of classic literature from around the world.
- Lit2Go, University of South Florida : a collection of MP3 and podcast versions of classic literature available for download on the Web or on iTunes U.
- Project Gutenberg : a huge collection of public domain works of literature in a variety of digital formats, including PDF, Kindle, and ePUB.
- eBooks and Texts Archive, Internet Archive : an interesting collection of free books and texts including many fully-scanned versions of original texts.