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.
Smithsonian Open Access: Search, download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images for free. The images carry a Creative Commons Zero designation. No permission is needed to use the more than 4.9 million 2D still images, sound recordings research datasets, 3D models, collections data and more from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
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.