What is Open Multimedia?
Open Multimedia encompasses many different formats of media that fall under open licensing. These can include resources like downloadable high quality images, website templates and video stock footage. However, it is extremely important to follow the license attached to the work as rules and restrictions can still apply.
To learn more about how to use open educational resources within the proper legal limitations, please read the information on the OER guide home page
Featured CC0 Images
Multimedia
- Aiconica - Opens in a new windowBrowse icons organized in alphabetical categories.
- Feather - Opens in a new windowSimple open source icons available for download.
- IconStore - Opens in a new windowOriginal icons in a vast variety of styles.
- The Noun Project - Opens in a new windowNearly a million curated icons that can be downloaded on PC or dragged and dropped from the MAC app.
- Zondicons - Opens in a new windowA set of free premium SVG icons for you to use on your digital products.
- dig cc mixter - Opens in a new windowMusicians upload to cc mixter, you can browse and download music to use in your own projects. Three possible licenses can apply to works; only two are CC.
- Free Loops - Opens in a new windowOffers a variety of free sound effects, vocal loops, drum loops and more.
- Free Music Archive - Opens in a new windowBrowse and download music from various genres; while the majority of content is CC licensed, some music will not be.
- Sound Bible - Opens in a new windowA collection of sound effect audio files, many licensed under an Attribution 3.0 License.
- What Funk - Opens in a new windowHouse, electronic, techno, electronica, hip-hop, cinematic, pop music published on Whatfunk can be used for free, for commercial and non-commercial commercial purposes. You cannot sell or redistribute the music in its original form.
- Burst - Opens in a new windowFuel your next project with these stock photos geared towards the needs of entrepreneurs.
- Flickr - Opens in a new windowBrowse or search through content under each type of creative commons license.
- Gratisography - Opens in a new windowA quirky collection of free high-resolution pictures, all completely free to download without copyright restrictions.
- Kaboompics - Opens in a new windowProfessional stock photo website complete with complementary color palettes and inspirational blog posts.
- Life of Pix - Opens in a new windowA popular free photo resource, browse by gallery or photographer.
- The MET Public Domain Artworks - Opens in a new windowExplore public domain artworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.
- Negative Space - Opens in a new windowBeautiful, free high-resolution photos with no restrictions.
- Pexels - Opens in a new windowUpload your own photos to share or browse high-resolution stock photos for free.
- Pic Jumbo - Opens in a new windowDownload free HD stock photos, browse by categories or search.
- Pixabay - Opens in a new windowFree high quality photos, illustrations, graphic vectors and short videos.
- pxhere - Opens in a new windowFree images dedicated to the Public Domain.
- Scatter Jar - Opens in a new windowFreely accessible creative food photographs.
- StockSnap - Opens in a new windowCopyright free, new images added weekly.
- Stockvault - Opens in a new windowHundreds of new images added every week. The images are submitted by photographers and artists from around the globe.
- Unsplash - Opens in a new windowA large community of photographers that offer free high-resolution photos that can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
- Visual Hunt - Opens in a new windowVisual Hunt searches for the best free images from many online sources and pull them all together in one spot. Most of these images are CC0 license, meaning you can use them for any purpose.
- WOCinTech - Opens in a new windowA large stock photo variety of woman of color using technology.
- Google images Reverse Lookup - Opens in a new windowTool used to find the origins of an image by uploading or linking to the image
- TinEye Reverse Image Search - Opens in a new windowSearch by image and find where that image appears online
- Coverr - Opens in a new windowAll videos published on Coverr.co can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. Read the Licensing and FAQ page for more info.
- Mazwai - Opens in a new windowOriginal video footage; you must credit the author and abide by the CC license on each work.
- Pexels Video - Opens in a new windowA collection of free downloadable stock videos licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means you can edit or change the videos and use them for personal and even for commercial projects.
- Videvo - Opens in a new windowFree HD stock footage of motion graphics that can be used for any project. Video clips are licensed in one of two ways in one of two ways: their own Videvo Standard License, or the Creative Commons 3.0 license.
- Vidsplay - Opens in a new windowStock video footage can be used for both personal and commercial projects at no cost. You are free to download, edit, and remix the videos with the requirement that a credit link to Vidsplay.com be displayed.
- YouTube - Opens in a new windowPerform a search, filter your results to Creative Commons video to find open resources.
- Google Fonts - Opens in a new windowA directory of open source designer web fonts.
- HTML5 UP! - Opens in a new windowMake HTML5 site templates that are full responsive, built on HTML5 and CSSS3, customizable and free.