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Intellectual Property

Interactive Tools

• Fair Use Evaluator
• Digital Copyright Slider
• The Copyright Genie

Creative Commons

• Creative Commons home page
• Creative Commons Search page

Sources for Multimedia Assets

A non-exhaustive list of places to find multimedia assets. Whenever you search such resources, make sure you filter the results to include only materials that you are licensed to re-use, or be prepared to make the case that your use of the asset should be considered fair use.

• Multimedia Resources - a LibGuide from University of South Carolina Upstate Library
• Wikimedia Commons - a media file repository of public domain and freely-licensed content
• The Internet Archive - a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Unsplash - photos
• Pixabay - photos and videos
• Flickr - photos
• 500px - photos
• SoundCloud - music
• CCmixter - music
• Bensound - music
• Free Music Archive - music
• Incompetech - music
• FreePD - music
• Musopen - music
• YouTube Audio Library - music and sound effects
• Partners in Rhyme - music and sound effects
• Freesound - sound
• YouTube - video
• Vimeo - video

Additional information about copyright

• The United States Copyright Office
  • Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright
  • Information on Fair Use
  • Can I Use Someone Else's Work? Can Someone Else Use Mine?
• Cornell University Library Copyright Information Center
  • What is Intellectual Property (IP)?
  • Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
  • Fair Use / Fair Use Checklist (PDF)
• Stanford University Libraries
  • Charts and Tools, Copyright and Fair Use Center

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