Resources

It is important to note that some of the works available at the following links can be used only in certain countries.

 

Some examples of places to get works offered under copyright licences:

PRS for Musichttp://www.prsformusic.com/users/Pages/default.aspx

Shutterstock: database of photographs and images available on different licences for different fees – http://www.shutterstock.com/subscribe.mhtml

Getty Images UK: database of images, video clips and sound tracks available on different licences for different fees – http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/

WordPress: online blogging site that has a range of themes available for both free and for purchase, available on different licence terms – http://wordpress.com/

WATCH: database of copyright contacts for writers, artists, and prominent people in other creative fields – http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/watch/

 

Some examples of sites offering works on a Creative Commons basis:

Wikimedia Commons: a database of millions of freely usable media files, like images, sounds and videos – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Jamendo: music for non-commercial use – http://www.jamendo.com

Jamendo Pro: music usable for commercial purposes – https://pro.jamendo.com/

Flickr: images, available under a range of various CC licences, however it also contains copyrighted images – http://www.flickr.com/

Incompetech: a collection of songs produced by the American artist Kevin MacLeod and distributed under a Creative Commons licence. You can freely use all the songs originally produced by Kevin MacLeod under the only condition of crediting the author – http://incompetech.com/

The Prelinger Archives: a collection of movies that are supposed to be in the public domain in the US – http://archive.org/details/prelinger

LibriVox: a collection of free public domain audiobooks (for users in the European Union or Switzerland) – https://librivox.org/

The Creative Commons webpage also provides the ability to search for a range of different CC-licensed media:

– https://search.creativecommons.org/

https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/

 

Copyright Cortex – an online resource dedicated to copyright and digital cultural heritage. It was developed to provide libraries, archives, museums and other memory institutions with information and expert commentary on how copyright law affects the creation and management of digital cultural heritage: https://copyrightcortex.org/

Resources available to filmmakers in the UK: http://film.britishcouncil.org/resources/archives/

Overview of the current state of implementation of copyright exceptions in 28 EU Member States: CopyrightExceptions.eu

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