How to find media (images, video, music) to use legally on the web

There’s lots of content you can legally use to enhance web publications if you know where to look.

Images

Photo Pin is a web-based tool that searches creative commons photos for you to use in your blog/ website. Just type in what you’re searching for, preview the photo and then click ‘get photo’ to download it with it’s proper attribution link.

Using Google Image Search:

• Click on ‘Advanced search‘ under the main ‘Search’ button
• Beside ‘Usage Rights‘ select the license that suits your needs from the drop-down list
• Click on the ‘Google Search’ button at the top of the page

Images, video, music & media

• Creative Commons Search
• Xpert Attribution Tool

Music

• incompetech
• danosongs (this site also has tutorials on how to embed music into, eg. MovieMaker)
• jamendo

NB: If you’re using iMovie or iLife to create content, you can use the music and sounds within the program as long as it is for non-commercial use.

If you have uploaded a video to YouTube, you can use AudioSwap to add a soundtrack. Simply click on the ‘Edit’ button and then on the ‘AudioSwap’ tab. You will be presented with a range of different music genres to select your soundtrack from.