How to Find Images & Videos

Find millions of Creative Commons photographs that are copyright-free. Look for the Creative Commons icons for the type of permitted use.

Search, manage and add over 190 million free Creative Commons images from many online sources.
The embed code contains all necessary CC attributions.

Images, videos, and music found using Google are NOT automatically available for you to freely use. To get to the images that have a Creative Commons license, narrow your Advanced Image Search results by "usage rights" by clicking on "not filtered by license" and changing that to one of the other available options."

offers access to thousands of images. Many images have information for citing in the catalog record.

Can't get to Paris to visit the Louvre? No worries, digital images of all the works of art in the Louvre's collections are now available online.

Over 490,000 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's high resolution digital images are freely available for non-commercial use. The Image & Data Resources page will explain more about the images and terms of use. Look for the OASC icon in photo captions for open-access images.

“contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site.” You still need to give credit to the photographer who took the photo.

The UWDC provides quality digital resources from University of Wisconsin libraries to UW faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state, and scholars at large. Resources within the collections are free and publicly accessible online.

Use this wiki-style database of images in the Public Domain or with Creative Commons licenses.

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