Every Stock Photo is a license-specific photo search engine.

Most of the content is available under various Creative Commons licenses and licensing information is clearly provided at the bottom of each media item's individual page.

Wikimedia Commons offers fully searchable access to media, including images, sounds and videos, that have been uploaded by users.

Search results can be filtered by different types of licences, including all creative commons, commercial use allowed, modifications allowed, and others. Users can limit their image searches to a specific institution by navigating to an institution's photostream.

Flickr: The Commons provides access to images with no known copyright restrictions from over 70 participating institutions ranging from the Swedish National Heritage Board to NASA.

commercial use allowed or modification allowed) from a dropdown box.

Flickr Advanced Search allows you to search using keywords or a phrase and to select the kind of license you prefer (e.g.

You can also limit your search by image size, colour, and type. You can select the type of license or public domain works.

Yahoo Image Search allows you to limit your results by clicking on “License” below the search box once you have entered a search term.

face, photo, clip art, etc.), by domain or website, by file type (e.g. You can search by exact word or phrase, by image size and aspect ratio, colour, type of image (e.g.

Google’s Advanced Images Search provides a field for usage rights where you can select the type of license you want, including free to use and share, free to use, share and modify, and free to use, share even commercially.

You can also limit your search by image size, colour, type, layout, people, and date. Just click the 'filter' on the far right of the window and then select public domain, license type, or the terms of use that best suits your needs.

Bing Image Search allows you to limit your search results by license type once you have entered a search term.

Creative Commons Search available on the Creative Commons website includes an option to search for Creative Commons content including images across numerous sources, such as Flickr, Google, and Wikimedia Commons, among many others.Listed below are a variety of resources for finding Creative Commons (CC) and public domain images.

Images in the Public Domain and Creative Commons

Public domain icons for commercial use