Sources for Free Media

• Creative Commons Search - search media that is licensed under Creative Commons. Creative Commons licenses allow that material to be shared and reused under terms that are flexible and legally sound. There are six CC licenses.
• Noun Project: A fantastic resources to find icons related to the concepts you need to visualize in your infographic design. Most of the icons are free for use under CC. (Credit example, for instance, Created by author first name, author last name from Noun Project).
• WikiMedia Commons - an online host site for Creative Commons images, sounds, and other media.
• Google Images , Settings -> Advanced Search, usage rights -> free to use or share.
• Richard Harrington's Blog - a list of free images websites.
• digCCmixter Music Discovery - Large library of CC music. Need to copy+paste credits for most.
• Jamendo - (Not free, licensing starts at $5)

• Incompetech - large library of CC music. Only requirement is that you copy+paste the credits into your work!

• https://unsplash.com/ Beautiful, free photos. Gifted by the world’s most generous community of photographers.
  Penn State's Media Commons Free Media Library

• Sound effects resources from the School of Visual Arts in New York City

• YouTube Audio Library

Images in the public domain for which there is no fee or licensing:

• Government photos: State and federal images are in public domain and are free to use.
• Library of Congress: A great source of images. Many images are in the public domain.
• Publicdomainpictures.net
• The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com
• If the work was published in the U.S. before January 1, 1923, you are free to use it in the U.S. without permission

Available to the Rice Community via Artstor, a database that Fondren library subscribes to

• Artstor Digital Library: has subsets of thousands of images that are "free" and can be used for publication either under a license for  "Images for Academic Publishing Program (IAP)" or Commons Zero (CC0) license.
  • How to find and use these images

Rice specific images

you can also use media from the following sites as long as you attribute to the original source. For instance, put “photos - courtesy of Rice University” in the credits of your video.

• Rice Image Library 
• University Archives and Rice History

Fair Use FAQ

Examples of Successful Fair Use

Attribution Best Practices 

How to Spot Fake Stock Photos (and Attribute the Right Person)