RasGuides: *School of Design*: Free Resources

Citing images

Are Creative Commons Attribution & APA Reference Citations the same?

No, Creative Commons tells you how a resource (i.e. audio, image, and video files) is licensed and defines the permission level or attribution.

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they (the author) have created and does not replace APA reference citations.

APA is a style guide for writing and formatting academic documents and reference citations.

Best Practices for Creative Commons attributions - how to attribute works you reuse under a Creative Commons license
A citizen's legal guide to using Creative Commons licenses.
CC Best Practices for Attribution
Welcome to the CC Wiki!
The purpose of this wiki is to help you learn more about CC and give you a chance to collaborate with us. CC relies on its community of users to keep it strong, so now is your chance to get involved!
APA Style: Clip Art or Stock Image References

Pexels

The best free stock photos & videos.

Pixabay

Free images and videos!

Unsplash

Freely-usable images.

Vector Stock

Free Vector Stock Images (student personal use in school projects).

StockSnap.io

Hundreds of high-resolution images added weekly.

Styled Stock Society

Feminine stock photography. Free-styled images for your projects.

Britannica ImageQuest

Millions of rights-cleared images from one trusted site.

Burst

Free stock photos for websites and commercial use.

Creative Commons Search

Browse over 500 million images, available for reuse.

FOCA Stock

Free photos, videos CC0 license.

Freestocks

Free stock photos use them both in personal and commercial projects

Life of Pix

Free high-resolution photography.

Pic-o-Graphy

Gorgeous free images to use however you like!

Creative Bloom

100 free resources! Images, videos, music, illustrations, icons, & fonts!

LOC Digital Collection.

Over 900,000 photos, prints, posters, & drawings are available online with no copyright restrictions!

ShotStash

Free stock photos for creative professionals.

Spoon Graphics

A graphic design blog that shares tips, tricks, brushes, etc., and freebies!

Picjumbo

Free stock photos backgrounds & free high-resolution images.

Negative Space

High-Resolution Free Stock Photos. (CC0 licensed images)

Old Stock

Recapturing History. Vintage photos from the public archives.

Gratisography

Truly unique. Usually whimsy. Always free.

Videos

FOCA Videos

Short video clips from the road, outdoors,

city, and more CC0 license

Pexel Videos

The best free stock videos

shared by Pexel's community

Pixabay Videos

Thousands of free stock video clips &

footage shared by our

talented community.

Free Music & Sound Files

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Bensound
Royalty-Free Music by BENSOUND
FilmMusic
Filmmusic.io is a marketplace launched in Hannover (Germany) in April 2019 exclusively for Creative Commons music.
Only licenses are offered, which also allow free commercial use, as long as the author is named according to the specifications.

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Users, who cannot or do not want to name the author, have the possibility to purchase extended licenses with a lifetime validity.
Free Music Archive
This site includes Creative Commons music files!
The #1 resource for free music and royalty-free music. Support creators, reward creativity.
Freeplay Music
This collection is for Student Project Use Only. Not for classroom use by faculty.

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Freeplay’s music may be used in a presentation, provided that the use is part of school work or a school project that does not generate revenue and is not broadcast outside the classroom or off-campus in any way.
Any other use of Freeplay’s music outside the classroom or off-campus requires a different license.
Freesound
Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse. Freesound provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples.
Incompetech - Royalty Free Music
Incompetech provides royalty-free music to use in your projects. Go to the Music License section and click on the Creative Commons button for free music with Creative Commons licensing. Also, read the Music FAQs section on giving credit/attribution information.
Pixabay Music
Royalty-free music downloads Thousands of music and audio tracks, free for commercial and non-commercial use.
Royalty Free Sounds from SoundBible
Welcome to our Royalty Free Sounds from Creative Commons and Public Domain only at SoundBible.com. These sounds are completely royalty free, meaning you can use them commercially without paying a cent. Why and how are these free? We've selected audio from Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, as well as Public Domain Sounds.
Tim Beek - Royalty Free Music
Remember to include correct copyright information when using these resources.