Copyright-Friendly Images (Mostly!) for Use in Multimedia Projects and Web Pages

In the spirit of the open source movement, new copyright-friendly (and some copyleft) archives are emerging, removing many of the legal and ethical thorns relating to image use in student production. In addition, a number of government image archives provide their archives with limited restrictions.

Check out this cool video for an explanation of new, alternate forms of licensing:

Creative Commons Video http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative/clicktoplay.html

Most of the images in the collections below include images with a variety of less restrictive licensing. Though students may not need to ask permission to use them when publishing on the Web for educational purposes, they should cite these images unless otherwise notified! Important: Any copyright notices on these pages, should be read carefully and heeded!

US Government Graphics and Photos http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml

Wikipedia Free Images http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_images

Yotophoto http://yotophoto.com/

Common Content http://commoncontent.org/

Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/find/

Open Photo Project http://openphoto.net/

Pics4Learning http://pics.tech4learning.com/

Wise Gorilla Educational Clip Art http://www.wisegorilla.com

PD Photo http://pdphoto.org/

America From the Great Depression to World War II: FSA/OWI 1935-1945 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

American Memory Collection: Library of Congress--click on "Photos and Prints" and check the "Copyright and Restrictions" section for each collection

http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html

American Memory Maps Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

Art Images for College Teaching http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html

Centre for Bioscience ImageBank http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/imagebank/

Daguerreotype Portraits and Views 1839-1864 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html

Department of Agriculture Image Gallery http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html

Department of the Interior Photo Resources Library http://www.doi.gov/oirm/photolib/

Flickr Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

FreeFoto.com http://www.freefoto.com/

Free Photo 1 http://www.freephoto1.com/

Google Life Photo Archive http://images.google.com/hosted/life (great collection but copyright and ownership belongs to TIme)

Graphic Maps.com http://www.graphicmaps.com/clipart.htm

Great Images in NASA (GRIN) http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/

Images of American Political History http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/

Internet Moving Images Archive (read Conditions of Use) http://www.archive.org/movies/

Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

(Please read copyright info on http://www.metmuseum.org/copyright.htm)

NARA's (National Archives and Records Administration) NAIL Search http://www.nara.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=images.txt&id=demo&pass=&OK=OK

NASA Image Exchange http://nix.nasa.gov/

NASA Multimedia Gallery http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html

NASA Photo Archive http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/index.html

NASA's Planetary Photojournal http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

National Health Museum (AccessExcellence) http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/

National Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/

Picture Collection Online (New York Public Library) http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/

NOAA Photo Library (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/

Open Clip Art Library http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/navigate

Public Health Image Gallery http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/home.asp

Pics4Learning (A great collection of donated photos!) http://pics4learning.com/

Picturing the Century: 100 Years of Photography http://www.nara.gov/exhall/picturing_the_century/home.html

Science Images http://www.ase.org.uk/cgi-bin/imageFolio/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Science

Science Images (Earth Zone) http://www.ase.org.uk/cgi-bin/imageFolio/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Earth_Zone

Selected Civil War Photographs http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html

Training Reference: Images for Learning Materials http://www.trainingreference.co.uk/free_pictures/index.html

US Air Force Link: Photos and Art http://www.af.mil/photos/

US Fish and Wildlife Services Images http://pictures.fws.gov/

US Geological Service Photographic Library http://www.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/photographic-library/photographic-library.html

US Navy Images http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm

USDA Historical Photos http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/histfeat.htm