Yahoo! Creative Commons Search

"While most stuff you find on the web has a full copyright, this search helps you find content published by authors who want you to share or reuse it, under certain conditions." Creative Commons "is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works." (Creative Commons; Yahoo!)

American Memory

"[F]ree and open access ... to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience [all] from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions." For information about restrictions on downloading, read "About Copyright and the Collections" on their page Legal Notices page. (Library of Congress)

NYPL Digital Gallery

"Illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more." And, "[i]mages may be freely downloaded for personal, research, and study purposes only." (New York Public Library)

WorldImages Kiosk

Regarding use of these images: "You are free to use these images for non-profit educational purposes, but we ask that you give credit to the copyright holders who retain rights to the images. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License." (California State University)

Internet Archive: Text Archive

"The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library . . . [of] historical collections that exist in digital format. . . . the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections." From their Terms Of Use page: "You agree to abide by all applicable laws and regulations, including intellectual property laws, in connection with your use of the Archive. In particular, you certify that your use of any part of the Archive's Collections will be noncommercial and will be limited to noninfringing or fair use under copyright law." (The Internet Archive)

This page was last updated on 2007 January 30.
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