Finding+Media+for+Your+Story

=Finding Media For Your Story  by [|Alan Levine] =

Now here is a his rule - //the media files you use in your story have to be ones that are licensed or shared with permission to re-use//; this is the only way you can safely then share your new creation knowing it does not contain any copyrighted material plus it is just darn human courtesy to give credit where creation came from. **So just finding a picture via Google is not satisfactory**. For each media file you find, as you search, be sure to document the source by title and URL and find a person or organization to give credit.

Beyond this list below, see [|30+ Places to Find Creative Commons Media].

Multiple Media Types

 * Ourmedia []
 * Wikimedia Commons []
 * Get Media []
 * Customize Google Search for Free Media []

Images
Check Finding Photos for ways to locate appropriately licensed images within flickr or use any media in [|my shared flickr account] (username=cogdogroo / password provided in workshop) - Several thousand copyright friendly images nicely organized in categories, free for any personal and/or commercial use, credit or back link is not required. [|http://www.public-domain-image.com]
 * [|4FreePhotos] - A collection of public domain images in multiple categories.
 * Art Images for College Teaching - a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator []
 * Youraustralia - cc licensed landscape images []
 * BioMed Image Archive - medical, dental, and veterinary images for use in learning []
 * [|Besplatne slike] Several thousand copyright friendly, public domain images organized in categories. All photos are free for any personal and/or commercial use, credit or back link is not required.
 * EduPic Graphical Resources for Educators []
 * everystockphoto - search form multiple sources []
 * Free Digital Photos []
 * Free Images - 2500 free stock images []
 * FreeFoto - over 100,000 images free for online use []
 * FreePhoroBank - creative commons licensed photos searchable and organized into categories []
 * FreeStockPhotos []
 * Great Images In NASA []
 * Image*After - almost 20,000 pictures and textures []
 * Internet Pathology Lab for Education - medical images & diagrams []
 * morgueFiles - photos "freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects" [|http://www.morguefile.com]
 * Open Photo Project - cc licensed photos []
 * PDphoto public domain photos []
 * Pixel Perfect Digital 5000+ user contributed images []
 * NOAA Photo Library - weather images [|http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/\]
 * PicApp Add the best stock photos to your blog – for free! []
 * Pictures from Old Books []
 * PicFinder - search multiple sources for royalty free photos []
 * Pics4Learning educational images []
 * Public Domain Images
 * Public Health Image Library (PHIL) []
 * Sketchory []
 * stock.xching - over 250,000 free stock photos []
 * US Government Photos and Images []
 * Woophy - find images via map []
 * World Images - 50,000+ images free for education, non-profit use []
 * YotoPhoto - searches public domain and cc licensed photo collections []

Audio

 * ArtistServer free downloads of independent band music [|ttp://www.artistserver.com/music.cfm]
 * CC Hits - cc licensed music []
 * ccMixter - remixes of cc licensed music []
 * Free Music Archive - library of high quality copyright cleared music curated by WFMU []
 * Free Music Project - free music of all genres []
 * Funky Remixes "music found on this website is funky and free... a sweet collection of upbeat hip-hop, rap/rock, electronic and funky styled remixes." []
 * Internet Archive []
 * Jamendo more than 10,000 albums of free, cc licensed music []
 * Podsafe Audio "a location where musicians can upload music under the Creative Commons license for use in Podcasts, Mashups, Shoutcasts, Webcasts and every other kind of 'casting' that exists on the 'net." []
 * Opsound - cc licensed music []
 * pdsounds environmental sound archive []
 * Public Domain Music []
 * SoundTransit - creative commons licensed field recordings []