Resources
There are many websites where you can look for free-to-use audio/visual material. If you are using material from one of these sites, ensure that you comply with any terms associated with the work you are using.
University Secretary's Office
The University Secretary's Office offer advice and guidance in relation to a number of legal and compliance issues including copyright and intellectual property rights.
Contact us
Please note, the Library is unable to provide legal copyright advice and your enquiry may need to be referred to the University Secretary's Office.
Why use openly licensed material?
Most images in books, journals, or on websites are protected by copyright. There are exceptions that allow you to reproduce work under certain conditions, but if your work is going to be published in a journal on a webpage you will need to get permission from the copyright holder in order to include it. This may be time consuming or costly, so you may wish to consider using material available under an open licence.
Sources of openly licensed material
Features millions of images, videos, sounds, and documents. Search for items that match your keywords or explore themed collections.
Creative Commons Music for Videos
A list of sites offering music published under Creative Commons' flexible copyright licences.
Photo sharing site where many works are shared under a Creative Commons licence.
Search the Getty collection of images. Choose 'open content images' from the home page to search images available under Getty's Open Content Programme.
Images centering black and brown people, made available under the terms of the Nappy licence.
A bank of over 700 million images and audio files that are available under Creative Commons licenses.
Free stock images made available under the Terms of the Pexels licence.
Image, video, and music sharing site where content can be reused under the terms of the Pixabay licence.
Free stock images made available under the terms of the Unsplash licence.
Most images in the Wellcome Image Collection are in the public domain or under a Creative Commons licence. However, a small amount of the collection is in copyright, so use the licence filter when searching to ensure you can reuse the content.
Over 100 million images from the public domain or under a Creative Commons licence.