Mrs. Harris' tips for finding great copyright-free images and music

Please keep in mind that it's against the law to violate copyright laws, even if you're creating a project for school. You cannot use copyrighted music, video or images, which means that everything you use must either be original or copyright-free. That means no bringing in CDs, no buying from the iTunes store, or just using photos that you find using Google images. The good news is that there are more and more resources for finding images and music you CAN use.

Some great copyright-free sources are:

For the 7th grade documentary projects:

http://www.digitalvaults.org/

http://www.civilwarphotos.net/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

http://www.dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Eighteenth_Century/Industrial_Revolution//

www.archives.gov

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Westward expansion: http://www.americanjourneys.org/index.asp

Abolitionist movement: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html

Women's rights: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/wmhp.html

For music:

Free and legal music tracks: http://www.redferret.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php

You can also use GarageBand to create your own music, as well as the sound effects within iMovie itself

For photos:

Wikimedia: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Every stock photos search engine: http://www.everystockphoto.com/

Flickr Creative Commons (note that you must cite the work used): http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Stock Xchang (free stock photos): http://www.sxc.hu/ Note: you need to log in to use this site. I have created the account SSSMS with the password SSDS

Morguefile: http://www.morguefile.com/

Photorack: http://www.photorack.net/

Unprofound: http://www.unprofound.com/

Freerange stock: http://freerangestock.com/

Free digital photos: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ (note: this requires acknowledgement if you're using the free photos)

Freefoto: http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

Freepixels: http://www.freepixels.com/ (requires acknowlegement)

Public domain photos: http://www.public-domain-photos.com/

Design packs: http://www.designpacks.com/ Photos download in packs of 15 related images

Historical stock photos: http://www.historicalstockphotos.com/

Please email me if you have a great resource to share.