Creative Commons (or free-to-use) Art and Media
This is just a big list of creative commons art and media for use in projects. Since my main weak poitn is music, this list will be a lot of albums and artist producing music.
Copyrights will be noted for each item, unless it is a collection or archive, in which case you will need to check yourself.
If you create free and open assets or have things you'd like to suggest for the list, feel free to email me at and.chitchat@sheeeeeeeep.art. And, I'll add them when I add them.
Items marked with a Yellow Warning Emoji (⚠️) are US Government resources that do not have a mirror to the Internet Archive (or are simply a large collection maintained by the US Government). At the time of writing this (2026-08-14), the US Government is currently in the process of gutting publically aviable resources and information. Consider archiving these pieces of media if others haven't already.
Other List
A collection of other list for finding media. Some items may be mirrored here over time.
- NYU Libraries Video Resources: A/V Materials in the Public Domain
- A list focused on audio and video material by New York University Shanghai
Collections
This is a list of miscellaneous hubs of art and media you can use for free under various conditions and license.
- Wikimedia Commons
- The library of alexandria of creative commons media. This is my go to for when I want to photobash something together or work with mix media. Easy to spend ours exploring around. Also has an audio section in case you didn't know that
- ⚠️ Smithsonian Open Access
- An archive of images by the Smithsonian. Full of all sort of historic stuff.
- Freesound
- This has been my life blood for sound effects basically my whole life as a game developer.
- Kenney
- Kenney is a powerhouse in free and open assets for game development.
- Itch.io's Game Asset Section
- Itch.io has a whole section dedicated to game assets lot so free-to-use and open source assets to use there.
- Open Game Art
- A large archive of art designed for games
- Creative Common's Search Portal
- A search tool for finding Creative Commons meadia across many sources
- ⚠️ The USDA Collections
- A collection of media from the USDA.
- ⚠️ NASA Image and Video Library
- NASA's collection of image and video which include astronomical footage and footage of NASA operations.
Film
- Public Dommain Movies
- A collection of films in the public domain, almost a terabyte of media.
- FedFlix
- A collection of US Goverment films in the public domain
- Prelinger Archives
- A large collection of films from the Prelinger Archives, founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger. Note, that not all films are public domain or creative commons, check before using.
- ⚠️ Yosemite National Park B-Roll
- Public domain B-Roll of Yosemite National Park
- Internet Archive collection of Stock Footage
Music
- Sewersivt
- Musician from Australia that puts out lots of CC BY music
- WangleLine
- All her work is CC BY 4.0 (except for one ablum)
- Kyou System
- Kyou System puts out CC BY 4.0 ablums
- Jeremy
- His work is work is CC BY-NC, but he defines NC as followed: While you may use this music in your projects, and those projects can be monetized, you cannot sell this music directly or use it in a way that is primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation derived from the music.
- Plokta
- Plokta release all of xyr work under creative commons licenses. Also, a friend of ours.
- dusted fragments
- Album by Skye Ash licensed under CC BY-ND
- Rrrrrose
- She creates music under free licences using CC0
SFX
- OpenNSFW Sound Pack
- A wonderful collection of sexual sound effects for all your lewd and erotic needs. I make regular use of their wonderful work. It even include VA packs, but I tend to avoid voice acting.
- FilmCow Royalty Free Sound Effect Library
- Thousands of sound effect record by FilmCow.