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Image Sources With Free Licenses
Website Name: Wikimedia Commons
URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Description:
Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other
media files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Files from Wikimedia Commons can be used across all Wikimedia projects in all languages, including
Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikivoyage, Wikispecies, Wikisource, and Wikinews, or downloaded for offsite
use. The repository contains over 20 million media files.
Usage Rights: Mostly CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, GFDL, GPL/LGPL
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Website Name: ipernity
URL: http://www.ipernity.com/
Description:
ipernity is a website offering free and paid multimedia sharing and social networking services. The site is
designed for authors, artists and casual users, and allows publishing and sharing of photos, blog entries,
videos and audio files.
Usage Rights: free use and various Creative Commons licenses; can be filtered through search
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Website Name: publicphoto.org
URL: http://publicphoto.org/
Description:
Free pictures for commercial redistribution and alteration!
Is Free - We don't ask you to pay any money. Download any image and use it without paying anything.
No Copyright - No need to ask our permission to use images. All publicphoto.org photos are free, have
been published in the Public Domain by us.
No Obligation - It is not necessary to indicate publicphoto.org as source or give credit, but any link and
promotion is welcome and fair.
Usage Rights: Public Domain
You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without
asking permission.
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Website Name: pdpics.com
URL: http://www.pdpics.com/
Description:
Pdpics.com is a repository of thousands of free public domain pictures and photographs. Use these stock
photos freely in any project.
Usage Rights: Public Domain
You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without
asking permission.
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Website Name: Public Domain Files
URL: http://www.publicdomainfiles.com/
Description:
Find thousands of Public Domain files available for you to download and use, completely free of charge.
Our goal is to build the largest collection of available files from all over the web, consolidated into one
fast, easy to search archive.
Usage Rights: Public Domain
Possible Prohibited Uses:
Although a file is in the public domain, the work may still have some restrictions for use if it contains any
of the following elements:
Image contains an identifiable person and such person has not provided a model release.
Image contains an identifiable building or structure and the owner of such building has not
provided a property release.
Image contains a registered corporate logo or trademark.
Files containing any of the above elements that do not also have a provided release would generally fall
under editorial uses only and may not be used for commercial purposes. Users downloading files that
are designated as "editorial use" assume full responsibility for their use of the file(s). Depending on your
use, the use of editorial use files may require additional rights that publicdomainfiles.com or the
copyright owner may or may not be able to provide. You should consult with your legal counsel to be
sure your use is legal.
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Website Name: alegriphotos.com
URL: http://www.alegriphotos.com/
Description:
Free stock photos for private and commercial use.
Usage Rights: Mostly CC-BY; some Public Domain
We kindly ask you not to use the images:
For pornographic, unlawful and immoral purpose, for spreading hate, discrimination, violence,
or to defame other people
As part of a trade mark, logo, or to endorse products and services if it depicts a person, or a
product
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Website Name: picjumbo
URL: http://picjumbo.com/
Description:
Totally free photos for your commercial & personal works. Most of the photos are from the personal
collection of Viktor Hanacek.
Usage Rights: Free
Can I resell the photos?
No, absolutely not. They’re free.
Can I publish these photos to my own site with free photos?
Please, don’t do it.
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Website Name: StockPhotosforFree.com
URL: http://www.stockphotosforfree.com/
Description:
Most of the original 100,000 photos on our website were pulled as still frames out of the HD videos on
VideoBlocks.com.
The photos you download from StockPhotosforFree.com come with a royalty-free license allowing you
to use them in all types of projects (commercial or non-commercial), for worldwide distribution, forever.
There are never any licensing fees. Literally the only thing you can’t do with our photos is redistribute
them or sell them as stand alone stock photos. Read our license agreement for more information.
Usage Rights: Royalty-free
Usage of StockPhotosforFree.com is completely free. In exchange for your usage of Footage Firm’s Stock
Files as provided hereunder, you must have a registered StockPhotosforFree.com account at the time of
downloading.
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Website Name: Stockvault
URL: http://www.stockvault.net/
Description:
Stockvault.net is a stock photo sharing website where photographers, designers and students can share
their photographs, graphics and image files with each other for free.
Stockvault's sole purpose is to collect and archive medium and high resolution photographs that
designers and students can share and use for their personal and non-commercial design work.
Usage Rights: Copyright
PERMITTED USAGE
In digital format on non-commercial websites, multimedia presentations, broadcast film and
video, cell phones.
In printed non-commercial materials, magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, CD/DVD
covers, etc.
Along with your non-commercial identity on business cards, letterhead, etc.
To decorate your home, your office or any public place.
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Website Name: Imagebase
URL: http://www.imagebase.net/
Description:
Imagebase.net is a collection of photos, mostly taken by David Niblack, that can be freely used for
personal, commercial, non-profit, artistic, or creative purposes.
Usage Rights: Copyright
These images are free to use for anything you want: non-profit, commercial, business, print, web,
screen, film, or anything else. You are not required to credit my name or this site. Basically, you can
treat the images as if they were in the public domain.
A few exceptions:
Please do not combine the photos with illicit or for any kind of pornographic purposes.
Please do not resell the images as they are. If you make alterations to them or combine them
with other photos, then they can be resold.
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Website Name: openphoto.net
URL: http://openphoto.net/
Description:
Free photographs for download. Creative commons licensed images.
Usage Rights: Mostly CC-BY and its derivatives
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Website Name: 500px Creative Commons
URL: http://500px.com/creativecommons
Description:
The Creative Commons section of 500px.com allows users to use its images with CC-type licenses.
Usage Rights: Mostly CC-BY and its derivatives
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Website Name: Freeimages (formerly stock.xchange/sxc.hu)
URL: http://www.freeimages.com/
Description:
Freeimages was launched in February 2001 as an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea
was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. The site
has evolved into the massive community you see today — there are over 2,500,000 registered users and
around 400,000 photos online.
Usage Rights: Copyright
You may use the Image:
In digital format on websites, multimedia presentations, broadcast film and video, cell phones.
In printed promotional materials, magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, CD/DVD
covers, etc.
Along with your corporate identity on business cards, letterhead, etc.
To decorate your home, your office or any public place.
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Website Name: Getty Images
URL: http://www.gettyimages.com/
Description:
Getty Images has recently opened its library of 35 million photos for free to anyone who wishes to use
them for non-commercial purposes (no sign-ups required). Bloggers are welcome to use their images via
the provided “embed” tool.
Usage Rights: Copyright (the Embedded Viewer is required when using images from the site)
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Website Name: publicdomainvectors.org
URL: http://www.publicdomainvectors.org/
Description:
Publicdomainvectors.org, offers copyright-free vector images in popular .eps, .svg, .ai and .cdr formats.
To the extent possible under law, uploaders on this site have waived all copyright to their vector images.
You are free to edit, distribute and use the images for unlimited commercial purposes without asking
permission. Although absolutely not required, we appreciate every link back or mention of our website.
Usage Rights: Public Domain
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Website Name: IconArchive
URL: http://www.iconarchive.com/
Description:
IconArchive is a professional tag based icon search engine with more than 330,000 icons for web
developers, end users and graphic artists. Also it is an inspiration source for new design ideas and a
place to enjoy beautiful icons. You can collect, organize & share your favorite icons here with ease. If
you want to customize your desktop, you can download icons for all operating systems, Win, Mac &
Linux. Website or Software developers with demand for custom icon design could search for
professional icon artists here. This may result in freelance jobs and/or design help for projects of any
size. On our icon artists page you can select artists offering custom icon design.
Usage Rights: various (Creative Commons Attribution, Linkware, Free)
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Website Name: flaticon
URL: http://www.flaticon.com/
Description:
flaticon is a free project, created for and by designers and developers.
"Nowadays, icons are becoming very important and they are widely used in design projects. So much, in
fact, that I wondered "why not build a new tool to find and choose icons without limits, a tool that can
run well in any project, eventually". FlatIcon, is a breakthrought at this point, it makes icon search and
conversion a lot easier and extremely fast, offering useful formats like SVG, source and PNG."
- Alejandro Sánchez Blanes, FlatIcon founder
Usage Rights: CC BY 3.0
You are allowed:
Use this icons for commercial purposes, to share or to modify it. In exchange, it's necessary to
credit the author for the original creation as:
"Icon made by {author} from Flaticon.com"
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Website Name: Iconfinder
URL: https://www.iconfinder.com/free_icons
Description:
Iconfinder provides beautiful icons to millions of designers, developers and other creative professionals.
Established in 2007, Iconfinder now hosts the world’s largest collection of premium icons, with over
340.000 icons in stock. The Iconfinder Marketplace lets contributing illustrators earn royalties by
drawing, uploading and selling their original artwork.
Usage Rights: Creative Commons, Free
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There are also several users from deviantart who released their photos as public domain. Though their
collection is not as extensive as the sites above, they’re still worth mentioning. Here are a few:
http://azaleapoena.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://nocreditstock.deviantart.com/gallery/