All Collections
Free, libre and open licensed or public domain
(un)Common Adventure Gallery
Collection of free-to-publish genre illustrations.
Ars Magica 5th Edition
'Play magi and their loyal companions and grogs in the fantastical world of medieval Mythic Europe.'
CCHits
David Revoy
David Revoy is a fantasy artist who has worked on the Blender movie projects.
Ficly
A site of microfiction where you can add sequels and prequels to the writing of others.
Flickr
A photo hosting website.
Josh Woodward
Josh Woodward writes and sings quirky acoustic rock.
Librivox
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Opensource.com
At opensource.com, we want to show you the places where the open source way is multiplying ideas and effort, even beyond technology.
Piecepack
A set of pieces you can use to play many games.
Prismatic Art Collection
A collection of inclusive fantasy art.
Project Gutenberg
A website that preserves out-of-copyright books.
Rynothebearded
CC-licensed music, 24/7
Wikipedia
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
unglue.it
A website to fund the release of Creative Commons-licensed books through a number of methods.
1923: A Monthly Zine of Public Domain Treasures
1923 is a year-long zine publication by Parker Higgins distributed on paper to 100 subscribers and online to the world. It was funded through a Kickstarter campaign in January 2019.
200 Word RPG Challenge
Create a role-playing game in 200 words or less.
A Dark Room
ABC's of Anarchy
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African Storybook
The African Storybook initiative aims to address the shortage of contextually appropriate books for early reading in the languages of Africa. Our vision is for all young African children to have enough enjoyable books to read in a familiar language to practise their reading skills and learn to love reading.
African Storybook Project
Our vision is for all African children to have enough stories in a language familiar to them to practise reading and learn to love reading.
Al Jazeera
CC-licensed, media-quality footage.
All the Music LLC
We’ve created an application to generate by brute force all mathematically possible melodies and write them to MIDI files.
Antti Luode
Composer
Argofox
Royalty free music.
Art Passions
Collections of public domain artworks by dead artists.
Audionautix
Free production music.
Barn Images
Barn Images offers you a collection of free high-resolution non-stock photography.
Bedroom Wall Press
Bill Browne
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The collection of illustrations in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Blend Swap
BLEND SWAP IS A COMMUNITY OF PASSIONATE BLENDER ARTISTS WHO SHARE THEIR WORK UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES.
Book Dash
Children's books, focused on Africa.
Boundless
Textbooks.
British Library
The British Library.
Burningwell
Public domain images (mostly photographs)
Cat Avatar Generator
Generate a random cat.
Cecil Street (Internet Archive)
Stories by Cecil Street.
Centre For Policy Development
A thinktank.
Clean Energy Wire
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Commonly
A site to ransom CC0 game assets.
Commonwealth of Learning
An organisation which encourages the sharing of research, knowledge and technology.
Communia
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Comunes
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Cost of Freedom
Essays on and from the free culture movement.
Creationistas
A lobbying site in favour of fair use.
Creative Commons Certificate
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Creativeapplications Net
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Crow the Stone
Free photos to use any way you want. Subscribe to receive new photos directly to your inbox every week.
Cupcake
Free (do what ever you want) photos.
Daniel Bautista
A musician.
Daniel Kwon
A video creator.
EBC
Brazilian news site.
EngineerGuy.com
"Bill Hammack's Video & Audio on Engineering"
Ethic Cinema
Evil Mad Scientist Shop
Faded Page
"Faded Page is an archive of eBooks that are provided completely free to everyone."
FancyCrave
Free high resolution photos from professional photographers. Two new images every day.
Fantastique Unfettered
A magazine of short stories.
Ficlatte
Microfiction
Fodongo: A Free-Culture Comics Zine
Folger Shakespeare Library
This database offers access to tens of thousands of high resolution images from the Folger Shakespeare Library, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, and art.
Font Awesome
Foodista
A recipe site.
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation supports visionary leaders and organizations on the frontlines of social change worldwide.
Free Curricula Center
The Free Curricula Center (FCC) helps students worldwide reach their educational potential by producing and distributing university-level curricula that can be copied freely and modified cooperatively.
Free Motion Quilting
A collection of designs for quilt patches.
Free Nature Stock
Royalty-free Nature Stock Photos. Use them however you want.
Free Software Directory
Free for All
Free Culture, Games and Design
FreePD.com
A collection of 444 public domain songs
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping support and defend public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government.
Global Voices
A network of bloggers.
Hack The Bells
A competition to remix the carillion in UC Berkeley.
I'm Fresh! You're Pretty!
Musicians.
Icommons
iCommons is a registered UK charity that promotes collaboration among proponents of open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world.
Incompetech
Royalty-free music
Insects Unlocked
High-magnification photos of insects.
Instructables
Instructables is a place that lets you explore, document, and share your creations.
Interactivities Ink
A creator of games you can print and play.
International Music Score Library Project
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Joe Banner
Writes adventures for Dungeon World.
John Colagioia
John Colagioia's blog - including the Free Culture Book Club.
Johnstone Metzger
A game designer.
Jonathan Mann
Wrote a song a day; now over 6,000.
Kenney
An artist and maker of game assets (2D and 3D)
Leebre
A book publishing site.
Letters for Black Lives
Letters for Black Lives is a set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally-aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities.
List of Open Source Video Games
A page on Wikipedia.
Little Visuals
Free, high resolution images.
Lumen Learning
Open course frameworks: blueprints for teaching with OER
Lunduke
MKG Collection Online
"For the first time, MKG Collection Online makes the objects of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg publicly available on a digital platform."
MMO
"Canadian rock guitarist/songwriter/producer Mike Olekshy fled his homeland in 2005 to attend music college and play guitar with various artists around Los Angeles, CA. His alter-ego MMO has just released a brand new EP "Drunk Dial Of The Year" - a collection of guitar-driven rock that blurs the lines between pop and metal -- complete with quirky lyrics and catchy melodies." https://archive.org/details/jamendo-048807
MMT
"Free for commercial use photos by Jeffrey Betts."
Magdeleine
Hand-picked free photos for your inspiration
Maki
A clean point of interest icon set made especially for cartography.
Mark Causey's Patreon games
Defunct.
Mars Express
Images from the Mars Express mission.
Material Icons
"Material design system icons are simple, modern, friendly, and sometimes quirky. Each icon is created using our design guidelines to depict in simple and minimal forms the universal concepts used commonly throughout a UI. Ensuring readability and clarity at both large and small sizes, these icons have been optimized for beautiful display on all common platforms and display resolutions."
Mathispower4U
'This site provides over 2,600 free mini-lessons and example videos with no ads. The videos are organized by course and topic.'
Michele Bucelli
Free pixel art for games.
Mike Shaw
A mashup musician.
Miyoung Yi
A Korean artist
Morevna Project
An open source animation production.
Moveast
"This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving that decided that every photo should be used for free. Help yourselves and use them wherever you want (CC0)"
Moving Image Contest
The results of a contest to explain the tension between culture and copyright.
Mrbeastdesign
An artist.
Musescore
Hosts the sources of the Open Goldberg Variations edition
Museums Victoria Collections
This site allows users to explore the natural sciences and humanities collections of Museum Victoria in Australia, featuring collections of zoology, geology, palaeontology, history, indigenous cultures and technology. Over 1.15 million records were presented at launch in 2015, accompanied by over 150,000 images.
Musical Artifacts
A site that hosts and distributes "artifacts" that musicians can use to make music.
Musopen
There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed... - Beethoven
Musopen Collection
Music files from Musopen.
NASA Images
A collection of photographs from NASA.
NASA's Sound Files
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NZ Commons
Creative Commons New Zealand's website
Negative Space
"Free stock photos added every week."
Netflix Open Content
Collection of open content short films and select assets from those films.
New Education Highway
A non-profit working with OER and local educators.
New Old Stock
"Vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions. Recapturing history."
New Palmyra
3D maps of the ruins of Palmyra.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
The library's collection, including 180,000 public domain works.
Nordic Creative Commons Film Festival
"The Nordic Creative Commons Film Festival is the first festival organized in the Nordic region for films created and distributed under CC-licenses."
OSVehicle
Download car designs.
Obrary
Has open designs
Old Book Illustrations
Illustrations scanned from old books.
One Community
"7 complete and different sustainable village prototypes, all related living infrastructure, and a Highest Good society model for global transformation."
Open Building Institute
An open source effort to make ecological, affordable housing widely available.
Open Data Initiative
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Open Music Archive
Open Music Archive is a collaborative project, initiated by artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White, to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings. The archive distributes these recordings freely, forms a site of exchange, and is a vehicle for future collaborations and distributed projects.
Open Pixel Project
"We’ve created a set of pixel art game graphics that are completely free to use for any project"
Open Resource Bank for Interactive Teaching
The name says it all.
Open Source Ecology
Technology for sustainable, localised, modern living.
Open source books
Learn more about open source and the growing open source movement with our comprehensive list of books below.
OpenStax
A repository of OER.
Openclipart
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Opendesk
Purchase ready-made furniture or download the source files and make your own.
Openlibra
OpenLibra "La Biblioteca Libre online que estabas esperando"
Opentechco
"Free and Fast Technical Guides for Effective Co-creation"
Opsound
A collection of copyleft songs.
P2PU
An online learning community.
PLOS
Scientific and medical knowledge shared with the world.
Panton Discussions
Conversations about open data in science.
Pelgrane Press
Pexels
"Best free stock photos in one place."
PhET Interactive Simulations
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Photo Collections
Free stock photography.
Photocrops
"Photos to use any way you choose. Five free high resolution photos every week, sometimes more."
Phylopic
Picdrome
A collection of photos.
Picography
"Free hi-resolution photos. Use them however you like."
Pixabay
"Find and share outstanding images"
Prelinger Archive
A collection of ephemeral film.
Pressbooks Directory
'The Pressbooks Directory is a free, searchable catalog that includes 8,727 open access books published across 211 unique networks using Pressbooks.'
Public Domain Archive
"New 100% Free Stock Photos. Every. Single. Week."
Public Domain Image Archive
'Explore our hand-picked collection of 10,919 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse.'
Pwning Tomorrow
"Donate and download Pwning Tomorrow, a free, Creative Commons-licensed anthology of short fiction curated by EFF! The anthology commemorates EFF's quarter-century of fighting for digital rights, and features superstar writers speculating on the upcoming 25 years and beyond."
Questquest
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Ramon Lucha
An artist.
Realistic Shots
"Free stock photos (high resolution) for personal and commercial use. 7 new photos every week. Just make something creative!"
Rijksmuseum
Dutch museum of artworks and artifacts.
Road-Sign Hank and the Aliens
Lunduke is a game designer and comic creator.
RobGreenfield.TV
Minimalism, travel, simple living, etc.
Ryzom Asset Repository
3D assets from the MMORPG Ryzom.
Scarlet Heroes Art Pack
South-East Asian-inspired fantasy art.
Shady's Shorts
Lately, most of my writing has been on long-form projects. Because of this, I sometimes write a short (most times comedic, other times not so much) to break up the monotony of those longer projects.
Silent Legions Art Pack
"The Silent Legions Art Pack is a free collection of 56 black-and-white line images and one color cover first used in the Silent Legions Lovecraftian horror RPG."
Smithsonian Open Access
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
SpaceX Photos
SpringerOpen
An open access publisher in medicine, science and technology.
Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange is a network of 150+ Q&A communities
Stanford Engineering Everywhere
'SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.'
Startup Stock Photos
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State Library Of Queensland
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StoryWeaver
Browse StoryWeaver, where you can read, create, translate, or download an endless stream of stories.
Subaqueous
"Subaqueous is a solo music project of Isaac Cotec. The music has incorporated beat science to create progressive mid tempo and dance music."
Superpowers Asset Packs
Pixel art assets, specifically for the Superpowers game engine, but usable anywhere.
Surian Soosay
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Techdirt
A tech news site.
Telecanter
A tabletop RPG website.
Terra X-Clips
Instructional clips.
The Dryden Experiment
An unbounded Science Fiction Universe available under Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA for development by authors, artists, game designers, and other creatives.
The Golden Years
Public domain comics, gratis to view but difficult to download.
The Hill Productions
A small film company.
The Libre Art of the Fugue
A new free recording of Bach's final masterpiece, played by pianist Kimiko Ishizaka. Concerts in the Elbphilharmonie and Carnegie Hall.
The Noun Project
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The Open Standard
A discontinued newsletter.
The Other Side
A podcast network.
The Pic Pac
New pacs on Monday. Free pics Tuesday-Sunday
The SELinux Coloring Book
A colouring book that explains SELinux policies.
The Toxies
A collection of information sheets and a simple game.
Tracy Barnett
Inclusive and original tabletop gaming content.
Unsplash
Free high-resolution stock photos
Valentin Champer's COPYME Editions
A poet.
Video Game Law
An online course about video game law.
VlogBrothers Distribution Project
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WATT
Watt explores the economic, technology, culture, and health issues facing musicians.
WOCinTech Chat
Photos of women of colour in the tech sector.
Wikidata
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Wikinews
The Wikinews project is a free content news source of the Wikimedia Foundation that seeks to provide content, free of charge, where everyone is invited to contribute reports about events large and small, either from direct experience, or summarized from elsewhere.
Wiley Open Access
A variety of journals published by Wiley.
cc0.photo
public domain photos.
ccMixter
ccMixter is a site for Creative Commons remixes. You can listen to the music, but also sample and mash-up it.
inkrobot.ca
I am the creator of Inkrobots: A line of Creative Commons 4.0 robot illustrations that are available for artists and designers (And anyone else) to remix, edit, copy and build upon.
jay mantri
free pics. do anything (CC0). make magic.
logodust.com
Vector logos.
rawpixel
Stock photo website.
re:splashed
"670 free HD images for your web and design projects."
travel coffee book
Sharing beautiful travel moments.
vegepedia
‘vegepedia’ is the sixth and newest installment in the vegebook series of adult coloring books by nick dolan. it is one of the world’s only “open source” coloring books, and is packed with over 45 cc-licensed images.
voec
Non-free, libre and open licensed
These entries may not be free, libre and open.
1KM1KT
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43+ Unique Places to Find Remarkable Free Photos
Looking for FREE high quality stock photo sites like Unsplash? Here’s a list of the best ones. You can use all of these photos for commercial purposes too. And no attribution is required. Enjoy!
Alphonse Maria Mucha - The complete works
A collection of artworks of the Art Nouveau artist.
Audiobooks By Verkaro
Audiobooks.
Awesome Gamedev
A curated list of good stuff related to the development of games. This list contains only free software for code, sellers who aren't evil for physical resources, and free cultural works for assets.
Bad Panda Records
Weekly music.
Badilisha Poetry X Change
Bandcamp
Creative Commons-licensed albums.
Barcelona Creative Commons Film Festival
A CC film festival.
Basic Dungeons & Dragons
An all rights reserved game, but that has been cloned by free and open games.
Behance
A site that hosts artists portfolios.
Beyond Belief Games
CC Content Directories
Links to collections of CC-licensed works.
Catalyst Games
Tabletop game designers.
Cctrax
A collection of CC albums.
Cheapass Games
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Collections Online
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Crystal Obelisk
Daniel Solis' Blog
An artist and game designer.
Dungeon Squad Companion
New options for Dungeon Squad.
Dungeon World Index
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Dungeons & Dragons 4E
Not free and open itself, but cloned by free and open projects.
Fakemon
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Fantasy Craft
Fate
The engine of several popular tabletop roleplaying games.
Free Music Archive
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Free Software Recommendations
Windows and Mac FLOSS.
Free Speculative Fiction Online
Global Game Jam
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Gloomhaven Creator Pack
'a massive amount of assets from [Gloomhaven] to create pretty much whatever new content you want to create.'
Google Web Fonts
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Grand OGL Wiki
Hampshire College Recommendations
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I-am-cc.org
A third-party site that allows you to CC license your Instagram photos.
Independent Australia
News.
Internet Archive
An organisation devoted to permanent access to digital collections.
Issuelab
A collection of information.
Jamendo
Formerly a website that only hosted Creative Commons songs. Open-licensed songs have been preserved on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@jamendo_archive
Jonathan Coulton's website
A kooky and popular musician.
Justen Brown
Liberated Pixel Cup
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List of Premium and Libre Video
In order to "consolidate an audience for open movies, a first step in addressing the yawning gap in distribution and marketing for open, even where open production is feasible" the best copies (inclusive of encodings, translations/translatable, provenance info) must be discoverable in one place.
Littlesecretfilm
A film project.
Loudlit.org
Love Vector Free
A repository of vector art.
MIT OpenCourseWare
'MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.'
Magnatune
Songs.
Minecraft
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Mixotic
Net mixes.
MonsterID
New Media Rights
'New Media Rights is a non-profit program that provides legal services, education, and advocacy for Internet users and creators.'
No Straight Lines
'No Straight Lines offers a plethora of examples of how societies and companies around the world are using technology in a collaborative and innovative way, bringing success to their economy and a meaningful connection between the members of the community.'
OER Commons
Support for and information about OER and a place to host it.
Open Game Art
A community dedicated to providing art for open source video games.
Open Source Alternative
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Open Source Game Clones
''This site tries to gather open-source reimplementations of great old games in one place.''
OpenTest
'OpenTest is a Collaborative Assessment Database for OpenEducation.'
Opentextbookstore
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Patware Free Software List
Includes a list of libre electronic games.
Strolen's Citadel
[A]n interactive, searchable role playing resource
TED Talks
Short talks from experts.
Tate
An art gallery.
The Travels of the Lost Pangolin
Systems for solitaire roleplaying games.
Unamused Comics
A website that hosts three comics.
Unicorn Riot
Anarchist citizen journalist website.
d100 System
A tabletop roleplaying game engine.
d20 System
r/GameAssets
A sub-reddit with game assets.