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---
title: Stock footage
description: Resources for personal projects
date: 2020-05-03
tags: ["download", "assets", "stock-footage", "library", "creative-commons"]
categories: ["tools"]
author: hendrik
license: WTFPL
---

Here is a list of free resources for pictures/music/videos/etc i use:

# Generic Collections

* https://allthefreestock.com
* <https://archive.org/search.php?query=licenseurl:http*publicdomain*>
* https://www.wikimedia.org

# Pictures

* https://pixabay.com/
* https://www.pexels.com/
* https://unsplash.com
* https://reshot.com
* https://stocksnap.io
* https://librestock.com
* https://undraw.co/illustrations
* https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
* https://pix-zip.herokuapp.com
* https://search.creativecommons.org

# Video

* https://www.pexels.com/
* https://lifeofvids.com

# Music

* https://dig.ccmixter.org
* https://www.jamendo.com/
* https://soundcloud.com/ (and search -> tracks -> filter to listen to -> use commercially)
* https://audionautix.com
* https://freemusicarchive.org/
* https://musopen.org/music/
* https://incompetech.filmmusic.io
* https://cctrax.com
* https://ibeat.org
* https://freepd.com
* https://cchound.com

# Sound

* https://freesound.org/

# Game Assets

* https://opengameart.org/
* https://pixelprospector.com/
* https://kenney.nl/

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Please make sure respective licenses are compatible with your use-case.
Creative Commons doesn't automatically mean you can do what you want[^5], it can restrict your freedom to make derivatives or exclude use in commercial projects. You may have to credit the original author.

"No strings attached" with works in public domain[^1] (PD) or licensed  [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).\
Another good choice are permissive[^2] free software[^3] licenses like [MIT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License), [BSD-style](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses), [Apache](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License)
or copyleft[^4] licenses like the [GPL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License) or [CC-BY-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_software_license
[^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
[^4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
[^5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license#Seven_regularly_used_licenses