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Public Domain and Creative Commons Resources for Video, Audio, and Still Images

Resources for finding royalty-free video, audio, and still image content.

Best Practices for attributing CC-licensed works in your credits

All Creative Commons licenses require attribution.  Creative Commons lists their Best Practices for Attribution, which include listing the work's title, author, source, and the specific CC license.  You can find best practices for attribution for a number of different media in the CC wiki.

The CC wiki does not, however, specify best practices for proper attribution in video credits.  Here are guidelines for attributing CC works in the credits of a video from Best Practices for Attributing CC-Licensed Works by the University of Michigan:

[C]rediting videos can be a simple list of the materials used with their associated licenses in a screen at the end of a video. 

Best practices for attributing works in the public domain

Creative Commons recommends including an attribution for public domain works in your credits as a best practice:

Here is an example of citing the source of a public domain image. The following public domain image is digitized and hosted by the Rijksmuseum (the national museum of the Netherlands). The Rijksmuseum has applied a CC0 dedication to the image.

“The Milkmaid” by Vermeer.

You may provide credit in the following format:

The Milkmaid” by Vermeer. The Rijksmuseum collection. The image is dedicated to the public domain under CC0.