Potential Sources of Copyright-free or licensed media: Below are a number of resources available which can be used in teaching and learning. Remember to check that resources labeled as 'copyright free' are from a trustworthy source! If you use any of the information on these sites, you should quote the site name and copyright owner.
Media Lawful use Potential sources – for recording / online use, including in Blackboard Potential sources – off-line use only type
Use images : The British Museum online - the British Museum collection database online. CERN: Images Search over two million objects from the entire Museum collection • where their copyright has expired http://copyright.web.cern.ch/ Flickr - Creative Commons advanced search - use Flickr's advanced search page • use images subject to a Creative Commons (CC) Notes: licence, attribute the licence owner and honour to include only photos (or short video clips) that have a Creative Commons • CERN provides images free of charge any restrictions licence. for educational and informational use. • use Open Educational Resources that allow the Flickr - The Commons - a number of publicly-held photographic collections • Images may not be used in a misleading, use of images in this way from around the world that have 'no known copyright restrictions' inappropriate or offensive manner, in a • where you obtain permission to use them from FreeFoto.com - free for commercial or non-commercial on-line use; free military context, in advertising or the copyright holder for non-commercial off-line use promotion, or in a manner that suggests • Create your own images ImageAfter – free high resolution images of objects, places, animals, any kind of endorsement by CERN or its mechanics, insects, signs, circuits and plants etc personnel. • have images from books in the University Library digitised for use in a lecture in conformance with JISC MediaHub - a new multimedia platform offering a wealth of digital • CERN is to be credited as the source of the CLA licence (link to library info about this) image, video and audio collections. the image. Luna - digital image collections published by the University of Manchester, • The image may not be sold, distributed using Luna Insight to search, view and manipulate images (most can be or otherwise made available for use by reused) third parties. Note: NASA MorgueFile - over 200,000 images Everystockphoto - searches across several free- NASA material may be reproduced and distributed NASA - imagery, video, audio, and data files that can be used for educational or to-use image sites without further permission from NASA. NASA should be informational purposes. acknowledged as the source. FreeImages.co.uk - around 3,000 images in PicFindr - searches across various free-to-use image sites various galleries (not for redistribution) Some NASA audiovisual material may incorporate music or footage, which is copyrighted and licensed for the SpinXpress Get Media - search across various sources for Creative Commons- OpenPhoto - Creative Commons-licensed particular NASA work. Any editing or otherwise altering of licensed video, images and audio images divided into various categories the work may not be covered under the original license, University of Exeter Digital Collections - thousands of images from Exeter's Stock.xchng - now a subsidiary of Getty and therefore would require permission of the copyright most prestigious research collections Images, around 400,000 free images submitted owner. by a large community of users VADS - a selection of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research WorldImages - 75,000 images from the in the UK to authorised users (in Blackboard only, not generally online) California State University IMAGE Project. They may be freely used for non-profit educational Wikimedia Commons is a collection of over 6 million free-to-use images, sounds purposes - give credit to the copyright holders and video files. See Reusing content outside Wikimedia for information about who retain rights to the images licenses used and how to comply with them.
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Media Lawful use Potential sources – for recording / online use, including in Blackboard Potential sources – off-line use only type
Sound PRS for Music does not make a charge where music is used at university solely as a required part of fulfilling a ArtistServer.com - 9,000+ music files, all well categorised and easy to British Library Archival Sound Recordings - a recognised and official qualification, without a charge for navigate. Many have Creative Commons licences. wealth of recordings of music, spoken word, entry. human and natural environments BeatPick (charges apply) – music licensing for film, TV and advertising iTunes U - over 200,000 educational audio and ccMixter is a community music site where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, video files from universities, colleges and other Recorded or live music can be freely played for or interact with music educational purposes if the audience is just education providers around the world. Requires made up of students and teachers. FreeLoops.com - free sound effects and music loops. iTunes software - if you already have iTunes Commercial works, such as songs or videos Free Music Archive - an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio installed use this iTunes U link. often have rights that can be very difficult or downloads, directed by WFMU, a freeform radio station in America. Commercially bought audio CDs even impossible to obtain so care should be The Freesound Project - there are no songs here, but 1000's of sounds effect can be used in class, but should not taken when selecting any third party material. and "audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps" be included in a lecture recording, so Podcasts that you download from the web these sections will need to be edited Jamendo - a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under normally have an implied licence that enables out from the recorded lecture. Creative Commons licenses. you to copy and use them, as downloading The same applies to streamed audio them is a means of copying, so generally JISC MediaHub – see images such as the BBC Listen Again service. speaking you should be ok to use them, unless Magnatune (charges apply) “a record label in the Internet Reality” they have an accompanying statement that precludes their use. NASA – see images Note that there is no automatically granted Opsound “a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of permission to media shift (for instance rip a CD free software to music” to MP3) in UK law. AudioFarm “find new and interesting music, audio recordings, people and friends from around the world.” A note about using sound for film: SpinXpress Get Media - see images Only use music that is not licensed under a No SoundCloud - the 'Flickr of audio' - a music sharing site where users can Derivative Works license to accompany images or stream, embed or download publicly available tracks video. Under CC licenses, synching the music to images amounts to transforming the music, so you Soungle – music, sound effects and musical instrument samples can’t legally use a song under a CC No Derivative (charges apply) Works license in your video. Wikimedia Commons - see images Make sure to properly credit the musician and the Tribe of Noise - social networking site where independent artists upload their track, as well stating the CC license the track is music under Creative Commons licences under. For example, you might include text like this at the end of your video: This video features the song “Desaprendere (Treatment)” by fourstones, available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial license.
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Media Lawful use Potential sources – for recording / online use, including in Blackboard Potential sources – off-line use only type
Video Educational establishments may play or show a American Memory: Motion Pictures - moving images from the Library of iTunes U - over 200,000 educational audio and sound recording, film, video, DVD, broadcast or Congress collections video files from universities, colleges and other cable programme to staff and students "in the education providers around the world. Requires Box of broadcasts Television programmes, under the ERA licence, can be activities of the establishment or for the purposes of iTunes software - if you already have iTunes recorded to show in lectures or online for authorised users (not for open instruction". No charge must be made. If members installed use this iTunes U link. access).) of the public are admitted then a licence would have to be given by the copyright holders. Internet Archive, Moving Image Archive - movies, videos and films many of which are Creative Commons-licensed (you agree not to recirculate your password to other people or organizations or to copy offsite any part of the • Commercially purchased DVDs should not be Collections without written permission.) recorded in lectures unless you get permission from the copyright holder. JISC MediaHub – see images • Commercial works, such as songs or videos NASA – see images often have rights that can be very difficult or even SpinXpress Get Media - see images impossible to obtain so care should be taken when selecting any third party material. YouTube - the most popular and largest of video sharing sites, includes an Education category with hundreds of channels • The copyright in videos that you might show from sites such as YouTube or iTunes U resides with Vimeo - video sharing site with thousands of new videos uploaded daily. the creator of the video, so again you would need Hundreds of categories including education (you will need to sign up for free to to obtain permission directly from the creator be able to check permissions and download videos) (YouTube or iTunes U cannot grant this on their Wikimedia Commons - see images behalf). On demand services such as the BBC’s iPlayer are not covered by the off-air recording licence so cannot be made available online as part of a recorded lecture. Note: The ERA licence excludes Open University broadcasts (there is a separate licence) – contact the Media Centre with queries.
Do you want to know more about intellectual property rights, including copyright and how these apply to materials you may want to use in teaching, eLearning or online? See our guides:
• Copyright: material from books and journals: http://www.elearning.eps.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2011/copyright/
• Recording lectures and participants’ legal rights – what you should know: http://www.elearning.eps.manchester.ac.uk/recording-lectures-and-participants-legal-rights-what-you-should-know/
• Case Study: clearing copyright for materials used in a recorded lecture: http://www.elearning.eps.manchester.ac.uk/copyright-case-study-dr-jones-and-the-lost-clips/
• Further advice on finding video, audio and images: http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/crossmedia/advice/finding-video-audio-and-images-online
• Further information about Creative Commons Licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
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