In yesterday's article, I spoke briefly about possible motivations of creators who release their work under permissive licenses. In today's article, I'd like to show you where you can find royalty-free media, which you can use freely in your posts and video's.
We're probably all familiar with Pixabay here on Steemit, but limiting yourself only to that one website is probably causing you to miss out. During my search, I've found many websites that host even more images than Pixabay. I hope some of them might be useful to you!
List of Websites for finding content under Public Domain or Creative Commons
Internet Archive
Internet Archive really deserves its own article, purely because it's the largest online resource for public domain material and I can't possibly fit everything in here. In total, they store around 10 petabytes of data, much of which is material that's been released into the Public Domain.
A lot of their materials are formerly copyrighted works that have now been released into the public domain. It would be impossible to list everything they have, so check out their website.
Bandcamp
Not everything on Bandcamp is freely available for commercial use, but when you check out the 'royalty-free' tag, you can find a lot of music released under permissive licenses. Great to keep in mind if you need a background track for a video-project.
Flickr
Flickr has a whole section dedicated to images released under Creative Commons licenses. They have millions of royalty free photographs that you can use for your articles. Do make sure you only use pictures that are available for commercial reuse.
Incompetech
Incompetech is a great website for finding royalty-free music, created by composer Kevin MacLeod. There's a pretty big chance that you've already heard some of his music, it has been used in over 2800 movies listed on IMDB.
You can use all of his music for free in your own projects, even commercially, as long as you give proper attribution. Kevin also has another website where you can buy royalty-free music for a 1-time fee, Freepd.com.
Pexels
Very similar to Pixabay, but it does have quite a bit of original material listed. I've been able to find many technology related images, as well as some stunning photographs. They're also hosting regular contests where you can win prizes by uploading your own images.
Pixabay
Pixabay hosts some of the most high-quality royalty-free images, everybody here on Steemit uses it. Their quality guidelines are very high, so you'll only find the best images here. It's pretty amazing that they can offer so many public domain images for free.
I personally really like their filtering system. It usually doesn't take me more than a couple of minutes to find the image I'm looking for. They even have some of the most abstract concepts covered, sometimes I'm pretty amazed to find an image for really weird ideas.
Pixnio
Great alternative resource for royalty-free images. Not as big of a selection as Pixabay or Pexels, but they do have some stunning photographs. Also seems like there rules for adding your own images aren't as strict.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is part of the same organization that runs Wikipedia and offers a large collection of over 64 million media files. You can find whole collections of images, audio and video, all of which are free to use and share.
A very nice feature of Wikimedia is that they categorize their content in terms of quality. They have some pretty extensive search options, so you won't have any trouble filtering through all of their files.
Additional Notes
I really hope that I've listed some websites here that could be useful for new creators. Always remember to properly list your sources if you use public domain material. Consider donating to the author if you can afford it, though it's certainly not a requirement.
There are many more websites that offer public domain resources for free, but I couldn't possibly list all of them in just one article. If you guys find this sort of post interesting, I'll definitely make a part 2 soon!
Let me know what you think in the comments and consider upvoting or resteeming if you like this type of content!
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Articles like this are always useful for new or older users of steemit. So thank you very much for posting about where to find free stuff for our articles.
Wish you all the best in the platform !
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Your list are an eye candy. I know a few and I've learned quite tons of things from you! Thanks for sharing this! Now I definitely saved those sites for future use! Love it!
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What a fantastically useful post! Thank you for sharing - some of these I already knew about, but some are news to me. As a photographer, I rarely use 'stock' images, but even so, occasionally the need arises. Thanks for taking the time to collate this list of great resources :o) Jay
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I get most of mine from Pixabay as I simply tend to forget about all the others. I have used Pexels too. In the early days I grabbed images from any old place but we as we both know, that's frowned upon.
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Google Images is actually also really handy to find these sorts of images. You can filter them by license :)
Yeah I might have done that too in the past, though not on Steemit. Everybody makes mistakes when they're just starting out.
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Great article, you even managed to wow me. I didn't know most of the sources. I was also forced to create my own figures and charts when I could literally find thousands online, but not free.
Great addition, thanks!
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I was about to post a post like this one. I do have some additional sources, so I will post it later and link to your post as well.
We can never have too many image sources :)
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Yeah, I've noticed that you have similar interests. It's never a bad thing to have different lists for these sources, there are a ton more than I've just posted :)
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Also a good site to discover free music from independent artists is https://www.jamendo.com/
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Great source, saved for future reference.
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Thank you for the valuable info @daan, will bookmark your post!
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Thanks you very much
This will really help
Your a great man
bravo
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