Media resources

Creative Commons Search which redirects to Openverse in August 2022.

Clipart

OpenClipArt - the place to go for public domain SVGs
clker.com - a good collection of free clipart
Public Domain Vectors
FreeSVG.org
PDClipart
Karen’s Whimsy - public domain images
WP ClipArt - an ever-growing collection of artwork for schoolkids and others that is free of copyright concerns
The Noun Project - icons and other art under various, usually permissive, licences.

Sound Fonts (creating music)

Vimeo has the ability to search for CC-licensed videos
FedFlix - US Government movies
http://www.worshipbackgroundsforfree.com/# Free motion backgrounds
Pexels - CC0 (public domain) videos
Videvo
Coverr
Pixabay - requires you to log in or solve a CAPTCHA
US Fish and Wildlife Service - works are gifted to the public domain by their authors.
- https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/about
Vimeo Creative Commons licenced videos

Pexels
Pixnio
Shutterography
Snappy Goat - aggregates photos from other sites
Free-images.com - photos tend to look more like the 70s to 90s, frequently has more “ordinary” photos
publicdomainpictures.net
public-domain-photos.com
pdphoto.org
Flickr - public domain
Unsplash - very arty non-stock-looking stock
Pixabay - requires you to log in or solve a CAPTCHA
Wikipedia’s public domain image resources page
Library of Congress free to use collection
US Fish and Wildlife Service - works are gifted to the public domain by their authors.
- https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/about
CSIRO Images

Project Gutenberg
Open Library
archive.org
State Library of NSW
State Library of Queensland
Digital Public Library of America - an online library. A lot of stuff is public domain.
Merlot - a kind of meta-library for academic materials.
Wiki Books
Wiki Source - a library of primary sources
Wikidata - not clear how to make use of it yet.
Data search - search all Australian government data.