# Creative Commons Media [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/shime/creative-commons-media.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/shime/creative-commons-media)

A curated list of resources that provide media licensed under [Creative Commons licenses](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/).

Contributions are very welcome!

## Audio
* [Audio Archive](https://archive.org/details/audio) - Internet Archive's Audio Archive
* [Bandcamp](https://bandcamp.com/tag/creative-commons) - Creative Commons tag on Bandcamp
* [ccmixter](http://ccmixter.org/) - Loops and samples that are co-created into tracks.
* [free-loops](http://free-loops.com/) - Loops and audio clips.
* [freesound](http://www.freesound.org/) - Collaborative database of sounds, mostly sound effects.
* [Free Music Archive](https://www.freemusicarchive.org/) - The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses.
* [Incompetech](http://incompetech.com/music/) - Royalty free music from Kevin MacLeod.
* [Jamendo](http://jamendo.com) - Musical albums. Requires login.
* [Tribe of Noise](http://www.tribeofnoise.com/) - Musical albums. Requires login.

## Graphics

* [AllTheFreeStock](http://allthefreestock.com/) - curated list of free stock images, graphics and videos.
* [Altphotos](https://altphotos.com) - Handpicked free (CC0) high-resolution photos added daily.
* [Compfight](http://www.compfight.com/) - Searches Flickr for images suitable for blogs, comps, inspiration and research.
* [Creativity103](http://creativity103.com/) - Library of free abstract backgrounds, textures and design ideas.
* [Find A Photo](http://finda.photo/) - Search through thousands of free (CC0 licensed) stock photos.
* [GameIcons](http://game-icons.net/) - SVG icons for board and video games.
* [Good Free Photos](https://www.goodfreephotos.com) - Thousands of free public domain photos categorized by geographic location
* [ImageBase](http://imagebase.net/) - Collection of free photos.
* [Morgue File](http://www.morguefile.com/archive/) - Photo collection with license to remix.
* Open Font Library 
  + [CC-BY](https://fontlibrary.org/en/search?license=CC-BY) 
  + [CC-BY-SA](https://fontlibrary.org/en/search?license=CC-BY-SA) - Open Fonts available under several open source licences
* [Photo Pin](http://photopin.com/) - Milions of photos for bloggers and creatives.
* [Photos8](http://photos8.com/) - High quality stock photos.
* [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/) - Photos, cliparts and artwork on CC0 licence. Requires login.
* [The Noun Project](http://thenounproject.com/) - High quality icons and images. Requires login.
* [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/) - Library of high-resolution images.
* [WorldImages Kiosk](http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/) - Library of 75,000 images that students can use in their academic projects.
* [Wylio](http://wylio.com/) - Image search engine with focus on bloggers. Requires login.

## Video

* [Mixkit](https://mixkit.co/) - A gallery of high-quality videos and animation

## Open Data

* [Geonames](http://www.geonames.org/) - The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.

## Open Journals

* [DOAJ](https://doaj.org/) - Directory of Open Access Journals
* [PLOS](https://www.plos.org/) - Open access research articles

## Open courseware

* [Candela Learning](https://courses.candelalearning.com/catalog/lumen)
* [MIT OpenCourseWare](http://ocw.mit.edu)
* [OpenIntro](https://www.openintro.org/)
* [OpenStax College](https://www.openstaxcollege.org/)
* [P2PU](https://www.p2pu.org/en/) - Peer to peer university - all under CC BY-SA 4.0 license
* [Siyavula Open Textbooks](http://www.siyavula.com/work-oer.html#BOOKS)
* [Skills Commons](https://www.skillscommons.org/) - Open Career training resources

## 3d Printing

* [Thingiverse](https://www.thingiverse.com/) - from MakerBot

## Misc

* [500px's Creative Commons Search](http://500px.com/creativecommons)
* [Creative Commons' Search](http://search.creativecommons.org/)
* [Europeana](http://www.europeana.eu/portal/) - Explore 48,427,731 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe. 
* [Flickr's Creative Commons Search](https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/)
* [Internet Archive](https://archive.org) 
* [Jurispedia](http://jurispedia.org) - The shared law
* [Soundcloud's Creative Commons Search](https://soundcloud.com/search/sounds?filter.license=to_share)
* [Vimeo's Creative Commons Search](http://vimeo.com/creativecommons)
* [Wikimedia Commons](http://commons.wikimedia.org/)
* [Wikipedia](https://wikipedia.org) - All under CC BY-SA license
* [XKCD](https://xkcd.com/)

## Other awesome lists

* [awesome-awesomeness](https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness)

## License

MIT