Wikipedia:Free image resources
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There are many Web sources of images under free licenses.
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 images before you submit them 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 this example search.
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[edit] History
[edit] 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 {{French Foreign Ministry}}.
[edit] Art
- http://www.historylink102.com/india/india-art.htm - free images about the People and Art of India. Users should credit them and link back to their URL.
[edit] Geography
- http://www.geography-site.co.uk/absoluteig/gallery.asp - Free Photographs from around the world.
- 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] General collections
- Large collection of valuable free stock photos
- Scans of art from pre-1922 books and various photos, free for any use
- Pointie.com - Free high resolution photos for commercial and personal use
- http://www.freeimages.com/photos.php - Thousands of categorized photos available for free download.
- http://www.freerangestock.com - Free images for commercial or private use. Photos are high resolution, high quality and the database is keyword searchable.
- http://www.copyrightfreephotos.com - High quality free photo library for any use, provided that each photographer is contacted beforehand. (Otherwise, not GFDL compatible)
- http://www.hscripts.com/freeimages/ - Free Clipart pictures, each in 48 colours.
- http://freemages.free.fr/ (in French) - A quality library indexing 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 - Over 2,000 free images.
- http://www.sxc.hu - Thousands of free stock photos. Only use photos with no restrictions.
- http://gallica.bnf.fr/ (in French)- Digital documents from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF).
- http://www.gnuart.net (in French) - GNU Art.
- Flickr has a special section for pictures tagged with a Creative Commons license. For example: BY and BY-SA, Search engine. Note that images with NoDerivs or NonCommercial are Non-free Creative Commons licenses and cannot be used on wikipedia. Consider using a work whose author tagged it with a license that is acceptable for use here.
- http://flag.blackened.net/anarpics/ - Images of anarchists and anarchist symbols
- http://yotophoto.com/ - A search engine for free images. Do not get the few that are not under a Wikipedia compatible license however.
- http://www.photocase.com - best free photo resource on the web.
- http://www.lyceumarchives.com/gallery/main.php - CC 2.5 attribution photo gallery.
[edit] Science
- http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/index.html - The National Science Foundation Image Library: Really great resource for all sorts of science imagery. Must fill out form to download, but most images are for public use as long as attributed. You can use {{NSFIL}} for copyright tagging (don't forget attribution).
- 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://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.
