That’s why we will highlight, for each section, five websites we find most interesting, while the rest of the entries will follow in alphabetical order. How large? Too large to go into full details for each entry. While a few of the sites in the initial list have gone silent, the new updated list boasts a much larger number of new entries. As the years have passed, the Creative Commons movement has gained a lot of momentum. When this article was first published in 2009, SitePoint had gathered over 30 of the best resources online for audio, video, images and more for use in your next project.

Make sure to read and understand the various licenses, and which one each file you discover uses. However, do be mindful that there are different degrees of the license, and some of them are for private use only, or they may require that you include an attribution to the original creator. Luckily there’s still a large, and very healthy, movement online for media files listed under the Creative Commons licenses.įor those of you unfamiliar with the concept, these are files you can use in the creation of web sites and other media, free of charge. Whether you’re subscribing to a pay site for full articles or clicking on ads in a blog, everything online seems to have money associated with it. In this day and age, it seems everything online has a price associated with it.

Flickr creative commons videos