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There are many Web sources of images under [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ICT#Free_licenses|free license]]s.
 
The presence of a resource on this list does not guarantee that all or any of the images in it are under a free licence. You are still responsible for checking the [[copyright]] status of each image before you submit it to Wikipedia.
 
Please read the policy on image use and etiquette at: '''[[Wikipedia:Image use policy]]'''
 
As well as these listed sites, you can search for pages licensed under a free [[Creative Commons]] license on Google through the advanced search, or by following [http://www.google.com/search?as_rights=(cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute%7Ccc_sharealike%7Ccc_noncommercial).-(cc_nonderived)&q=example+search this example search].
 
See also:
* [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]]
* [[Special:Upload|Image upload page for registered users]]
 
==History==
===People===
The photos contained in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs' online photography expositions are free for any use, provided that they are tagged with the following sentence: "Ministère des Affaires étrangères - Service photographique."([French] Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Photographic Service)] Though a wide variety of photos are available, the expositions present a particuarly rich collection of photos of heads of state. The proper copyright tag is {{tl|French Foreign Ministry}}.
*[http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/ministere_817/expositions_3347/index.html Expositions - Ministère des Affaires étrangères]
 
 
 
==Banknotes and coins==
* http://www.worldpapermoney.org - Lots of images of banknotes from all over the world, all scanned at a standard 150 dpi. Use {{tl|PD-banknote}} and an appropriate tag for the country from [[:Category:Currency copyright tags]].
* http://banknoteworld.com{{broken link}} - A huge number of banknote images from all over the world. Use {{tl|PD-banknote}} and an appropriate tag for the country from [[:Category:Currency copyright tags]]
* http://worldcoingallery.com/ - permission given by mail to Wikipedia (OTRS ticket number 2006080810014758). Contains all sorts of coins images all over the world, licensed under the GFDL. Use {{tl|WorldCoinGallery}} and an appropriate tag for the country from [[:Category:Currency copyright tags]].
* http://aboutcoins.org - Permission given by mail to Wikipedia (OTRS ticket number 2007040110015195). I'm not sure how to get at the images. Permission given under GFDL, a template still needs to be created.
 
==Geography==
* http://www.geograph.org.uk/ - Photographs from all over the UK, Isle of Man, and Ireland, most if not all are licensed under CC-BY-SA-2.0.
 
==Sports==
* http://www.igs.net/~bmitchell/Tennis/tennis.htm - Photo gallery of women's tennis players. Photos taken by bmitchell are specially marked and free to be used with credit and link back to the site. (Photo's offline since October 2004).
* http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/tt/1-sport.htm - All pictures are free for private or commercial use providing the source is acknowledged.
* http://www.art.com/asp/- These images show baseball cards of many different baseball players.
 
==General collections==
* [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html US Library of Congress] - not all images are free, but many are. Best for images whose copyright has expired, but also contains other images that were gifted by the photographer to the public domain, as well as images taken by US federal government employees (that are hence also PD).
** [http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ LOC's Flickr Photostream] - Images with no known copyright restrictions made available on Flickr by the Library.
* [http://www.stockvault.net Stockvault.net] - Share and download free stock photos for personal and educational usage.
* [http://www.publicdomainpictures.net Public Domain Pictures] - hi-res photos and illustrations for personal and commercial use. Resolution at least 1280 x 850 px.
* [http://www.wpclipart.com Word Processor Clipart] - high-quality public domain images.
* [http://www.clker.com Clker] - public domain clipart images in vector and raster format.
* [http://www.easystockphotos.com Easy Stock Photos] - Public domain photos, pictures, images and information organized by category in image galleries.
* [http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/ Karen's Whimsy] - Scans of engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly.
* [http://www.photogen.com/ Photogen] - Search and download free quality, high resolution stock photos and images, for commercial and personal use.
* [http://www.freeres.info/free-stock-photos.php FREEres.info] - Comprehensive listing of sites offering free stock photos, as well as other free resources for designers.
* [http://www.freeimages.ro Freeimages.ro] - Free images and high resolution photos for commercial or personal use. Anybody upload free images and public domain photos.
* [http://www.freeimages.com/photos.php Free Images] - Thousands of categorized photos available for free download.
* [http://www.shutterglow.com Shutter Glow] - A collection of high resolution free photos under CC 3.0 attribution license
* [http://www.copyrightfreephotos.com Copyright-Free Photos] - High quality free photo library for any use, provided that each photographer is contacted beforehand. (Otherwise, not GFDL compatible)
* [http://www.hscripts.com/freeimages/ HIOX India's Free Images & Icons] - Free Clipart pictures, each in 48 colours.
* [http://freemages.free.fr/ Freemages.free.fr] {{fr icon}} - Free high resolution pictures (Free Art Licenced images that can be modified, reused and even sold under the [[Free Art Licence]] conditions)
* [http://www.freedigitalphotos.net Free Digital Photos] - Over 2,000 free images.
* [http://www.gnuart.net GNU Art.net] {{fr icon}} - GNU Art.
* [http://www.flickr.com Flickr] has a special [http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ section] for pictures tagged with a Creative Commons license. For example: [http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/ BY] and [http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-sa-2.0/ BY-SA], [http://flickr.com/search/?l=commderiv Search engine]. Note that images with NoDerivs or NonCommercial are Non-free Creative Commons licenses and cannot be used on [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Non-free Creative Commons licenses|wikipedia]]. Consider using a work whose author tagged it with a license that is acceptable for use here.
* [http://flag.blackened.net/anarpics/ Anarpics - Anarchist Images] - Images of anarchists and anarchist symbols
* [http://www.vintagepixels.com/ Vintage Pixels] - historical, high quality, free-for-use images. People can also share their archived photos.
* [http://www.fotorama.no/ Fotorama.no] - Totally free pictures. Free for commercial and private use with attribution. People can also share their photos.
* [http://piqs.de/ Piqs.de] {{de icon}} - high quality photos licensed under the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) license.
* [http://animalphotos.info/a/ Animal Photos!] -- Free pictures of animals available under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA.
* [http://FinallyCreative.com/gallery Public Domain Image Gallery] - Hundreds of categorized photographs released into the public domain, updated frequently!
 
== Documents ==
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ BNF's Gallica] {{fr icon}}- Digital documents from the ''Bibliothèque Nationale de France'' (BNF).
 
==Science==
*http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ -Great resource for electron microscopy and histological images. Includes general biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and patient care-related images, and portraits of directors and staff of the National Cancer Institute. Image use policy states: "All images are in the public domain and may be used, linked, or reproduced without permission. If an image is used, credit should be given to the listed source and/or author".
*http://www.plos.org/journals/index.html - All content published under a CC-BY license. Some journal articles are accompanied by images that are useful for an encyclopedia.
 
==Search Engines==
*[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/fist.php FIST – Free Image Search Tool] (by [[User:Magnus Manske]], hosted on the [[Wikipedia:Toolserver|Wikimedia Toolserver]]) Covers [[Wikimedia Commons]], [[Flickr]], everystockphoto and other sites. Can search whole Wikipedia categories automatically to suggest free images for each article.
*[http://www.everystockphoto.com everystockphoto.com] - Searching over 2.2 million free photos, including Wikipedia and NASA. Free user accounts with drag and drop collections, tagging, rating, and comments.
*[http://www.photopy.com Photopy.com] - Search-engine for free photos. Searches for public domain, creative commons and other freely licensed photos.
*[http://www.picfindr.com PicFindr.com] - Searches hand picked Free stock photo-, public domain-, and photo community sites. Includes the ability to search by rights! (whether you need to give credit, ask permission or not)
*[http://www.spffy.com Spffy.com] - Searches one billion stock photos and video, including free images, public domain, creative commons, royalty-free and rights-managed. (NB - [[Firefox]] users only - website will not open with [[Internet Explorer]])
*[http://www.yotophoto.com Yotophoto.com] - A search engine for free images. Do not get the few that are not under a Wikipedia compatible license however.
 
== See also ==
* [[Commons:Commons:Free media resources]]
* [[:Category:Wikipedia requested images]]
* [[Commons:Category:Picture requests]]
 
 
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[[Category:Wikipedia copyright]]
 
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