Royalty Free Resources

Royalty Free Images

Pics4Learning.com
a free product of Tech4Learning—these are images donated for classroom use
I always start here in the classroom because there are no inappropriate images and the site is simple enough so that I have taught first graders to navigate it.

Free Images Donated by Photographers
This is my second destination when I can’t find what I’m looking for on pics4learning. They are not necessarily for educational use but are available free and taken by real photographers who are willing to share their images.

Flickr Creative Commons Images
has images taken by photographers of different abilities (amateur and professional) which you can use according to their Creative Commons license.

EduPic
free graphical resources for educators

Wylie–free pictures for bloggers

PlinkMe
free images for web pages

Ookaboo
free photos of “everything of earth”

iStock Photo – $2-3 a picture
If you still can’t find what you want or are going to use your images in commercial projects, why not pay $1 per photo and use the image legally?

These site has pictures of almost anything you would want.

OpenPhoto

Free Image Database

NASA Images

Free Clip Art

http://openclipart.org/

http://www.school-clip-art.com/

Royalty Free Clip Art

More Royalty Free Images

Larry Ferlazzo’s List

Terry Roberts’ List

Royalty Free Music and Audio

Kevin Macleod
This guy has great movie music that’s easily searchable by mood and style. I don’t know how he makes a living cuz he’s giving good stuff away for free.

Youtube Royalty Free Music Library
a new and growing number of tracks from collated by Youtube

JewelBeat
Free music selections.  Great stuff for movie soundtracks.

Purple Planet

Dig CC Mixer

Podsafe Audio
good stuff, great variety

Moby Gratis
Recording artist, Moby, makes some of his discarded tunes available free to filmmakers
(If you listen to the tracks, they’re mostly ambient, ephemeral pieces though I did find one I liked for my Film School for Video Podcasters project.)

Jamendo
royalty free stuff, though I sometimes suspect some of the “public domain” material really isn’t

Jonathan Roberts
interesting stuff that I didn’t use for my last project but might use in the future

Jimmy G
I didn’t find anything that I used from here but it’s another option. Requires registration.

Archive.org
This site contains music and video that is supposedly in the public domain…I have found a few examples on the web site that are not in the public domain and so I’m a little bit hesitant about using some of the material in video projects.  Nevertheless, this is a great web site with tons of material.

Dano Songs

OpSound
I haven’t used this site yet, navigation is not entirely intuitive

Soundzabound
$99 a year for school site access to royalty free music

Sound Effects/Foley

Sound Effects
great site for sound effects

Soungle

Absolute Sound Effects Archive

Free Sound Project

Additional Lists

by Larry Ferlazzo

by Richard Byrne

Royalty Free Movies

Archive.org (search for moving images)

Public Domain Flicks

The Law and Additional Research Information

Fair Use Doctrine

Fair Use Comic Book

Fair Use in Media Education Guidelines

Is It In the Public Domain? Slider

Copyright for Teachers:  Persistent Myths

Barely Legal Radio Podcast

Steal This Preso:  Copyright, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom

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