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title	description	date	tags	categories	author	draft
Stock footage	Stock footage for personal projects	2020-04-23	[download pictures tutorial]	[tools]	hendrik	true

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

Pictures

• https://pixabay.com/
• https://www.pexels.com/

Video

• https://www.pexels.com/

Music

• 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/

Sound

• https://freesound.org/

Game Assets

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

Other collections

• https://archive.org/search.php?query=licenseurl:http*publicdomain*

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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 want¹, it can restrict your freedom to make derivatives or exclude use in commercial projects.

There are "no strings attached" with works in public domain² or licensed CC0.\
Another good choice are permissive³ free software⁴ licenses like MIT, BSD-style, Apache or copyleft⁵ licenses like the GPL or CC-BY-SA.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license#Seven_regularly_used_licenses ↩︎

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain ↩︎

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_software_license ↩︎

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software ↩︎

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft ↩︎