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Here is a list of free resources for pictures/music/videos/etc i use:
Generic Collections
- https://allthefreestock.com
- https://archive.org/search.php?query=licenseurl:http*publicdomain*
- https://commons.wikimedia.org
- https://mzlw.de/materialien/
- https://shotcut.org/resources/
- https://search.creativecommons.org
- http://eng.letscc.net/cc_intro.php
Pictures
- https://pixabay.com/
- https://www.pexels.com/
- https://unsplash.com
- https://reshot.com
- https://stocksnap.io
- https://librestock.com
- https://undraw.co/illustrations
- https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
- https://pix-zip.herokuapp.com
- https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
- https://piqs.de/
Clipart
Video
- https://www.pexels.com/
- https://lifeofvids.com
- https://www.videvo.net/free-stock-footage/
- https://www.ignitemotion.com/ (Video Backgrounds)
Music
- https://freepd.com
- http://dig.ccmixter.org
- https://cchound.com
- https://soundcloud.com/ (and search -> tracks -> filter to listen to -> use commercially)
- https://audionautix.com
- https://freemusicarchive.org/home
- https://incompetech.filmmusic.io
- https://starfrosch.ch
- https://cctrax.com
- https://musopen.org/music/
- https://www.jamendo.com/
Beats / Loops
- https://ibeat.org
- http://free-loops.com/
- https://rappers.in/
- https://free-beats.net/
- https://www.looperman.com/
- https://sampleswap.org/
Sounds / Effects
- https://freesound.org/
- https://audiyou.de
- https://soundbible.com/
- https://www.pacdv.com/sounds/
- https://www.salamisound.de/
Game Assets
Transitions
Please make sure respective licenses are compatible with your use-case.
Creative Commons doesn't automatically mean you can do what you want[^5], it can restrict your freedom to make derivatives or exclude use in commercial projects. You may have to credit the original author.
"No strings attached" with works in public domain[^1] (PD) or licensed CC0.
Another good choice are permissive[^2] free software[^3] licenses like MIT, BSD-style, Apache
or copyleft[^4] licenses like the GPL or CC-BY-SA.
[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_software_license
[^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
[^4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
[^5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license#Seven_regularly_used_licenses