Other Copyright Resources
American Chemical Society: Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright
American Library Association: Copyright
American Library Association: Copyright LibGuide
Association of College and Research Libraries: Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers
Columbia University: Copyright Advisory Office
Columbia University: Keep Your Copyright
Copyright Clearance Center: About Copyright
Harvard University: Open Access Publishing and Preprints
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Scholarly Publishing @ MIT Libraries
SHERPA/RoMEO: Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
Stanford University: Copyright & Fair Use
United States Copyright Office
United States Copyright Office: Circulars
University of Illinois: Copyright Reference Guide
University of Maryland University College: Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines *
University of Minnesota: Copyright Services
University of Pennsylvania: The Online Books Page
University of Texas: Fair Use: Four Factor Test
Wikipedia: Open-Source License
Creative Commons: Search for items covered under a Creative Commons license or in the public domain. Always be sure to verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link. When in doubt, contact the copyright holder directly, or try to contact the site where you found the content.
Flickr: Search for the photo or video content of interest, click on the Advanced search link, and limit to All Creative Commons.
Biodiversity Heritage Library: Over 158,000 free plant and animal illustrations.
Open Library: Over one million free e-book titles to read.
Openclipart.org: Over 175,000 free images.
Pexels.com: Free photos and videos. Use the pull-down menu in the search box to select to search for photos or videos.
Pics4learning.com: Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting.
Photosforclass.com
Pixabay: Search for the free images and royalty free stock of interest. Over 1.9 million high quality stock images, videos, and music are shared.
Project Gutenberg: Over 50, 000 free e-books and free Kindle book titles to read.
Sherpa-Romeo Database for Publisher's Open Access Policies: Search for journal article permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.
Unsplash.com: Over a million free high-resolution photos.
Wikimedia Commons: Search for the media content of interest, click on the file of interest, and read the usage limitations. Most items are covered under a Creative Commons license or in the public domain.
YouTube: Enter the keywords of interest in the search box, click on the YouTube filter, and click on the Search button.
YouTube USA.gov Channel: Search for the video content of interest. Most content produced by the U.S. federal government is in the public domain. Content produced by a sub-contractor of the U.S. government is often not if the public domain.