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Free Media for Creative Use

Audio, image, and video sources that are free of copyright restrictions

About this Guide

These audio, image, and video sources contain material that is available under Creative Commons, Public Domain, or Columbia College license.

Read the small print to confirm that you can use the material for your project!

Copyright Basics
From the United States Copyright Office, 2017

Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research

Copyright for Distance Education
From James Madison University.
Public Statement of Library Copyright Specialists
This statement from experts was released to "provide clarity for U.S. colleges and universities about how copyright law applies to the many facets of remote teaching and research in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak."

Frequently Used Resources

Unsplash
Online repository with 200,000 high-resolution images.

Directories of Resources

CC Search
Search across multiple platforms (Flickr, YouTube) for media (images, music) that is under a Creative Commons license.
StockJo
Collection of free stock resources, including mockups, fonts, and vectors.

Free Media for Creative Use Research Guide by Columbia College Chicago Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.