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I've been looking for more CC0 resources as I've started doing more video editing. This is pretty awesome.

Some other CC0 art/photo websites I've used a lot lately:

https://pixabay.com/

https://unsplash.com/

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I actually created a meta search engine for high quality cc0 photos, its called librestock. check it out :) http://librestock.com

Do you have an API for this?

I'm a big user of this. Thanks for making it.

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Lots of cultural heritage institutions have these kind of services for historical pictures, often with very liberal Creative Commons licensing (or Public Domain). Your own Library of Congress[1] is a fantastic example. In Europe you can get a hint of what's out there via Europeana[2]. Flickr Commons[3] is also a good resource. If you are looking for contemporary pictures, Wikimedia Commons[4] and Flickr[5] is great.

When it comes to Unsplash I feel a bit skeptical[6]. I don't share every sentiment expressed in that post, but essentially I think they've stripped away many of the pros that made it a win/win for both photographers and users. I would much recommend trying to establish Wikimedia Commons as a platform. At least it offers a license with attribution as an option for their contributors.

[1] https://www.loc.gov/pictures/

[2] http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en

[3] https://www.flickr.com/commons

[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/

[5] https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

[6] https://medium.com/@TailsOfWonders/why-unsplash-hurts-photog...

http://freemusicarchive.org/ is good for music as well

I am a musician, and these may be of service as well:

https://archive.org/details/Actually

https://archive.org/details/myfreedownloads.info

Thanks in advance for listening!

https://search.creativecommons.org/ is also a great meta-search engine.

I like this one a lot personally, all CC0:

https://www.pexels.com

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