Where do you get your copyright-free assets? Share and explain a source for $3!

Posted by Ford James in Content Creators

Any given creator typically isn't an expert in more than one or two fields, and yet in order to make your primary work really shine, you often need music to set the right tone for a video, images to illustrate an article or design a cover for a self-published book, or other assets that you would struggle to make alone.

Fortunately, many creators voluntarily upload such assets to sharing sites on a copyright-free basis. It's important to respect whatever terms any creator asks in exchange for their hard work, but there's also no denying that those who choose to do so for free are enabling a whole stratum of grassroots hobbyist creators to do their thing too.

So let's get together and share these resources. Where do you get your copyright-free assets? Whether that's music, images, or something else, share your sources in a written or video submission and explain what makes them so useful. The best 12 submissions get $3 apiece!

Task: Explain where you get copyright-free assets from

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Created at 4:00pm, 9th May, 2024. Page last updated at 9:28pm, 19th May, 2024.
Deadline at 11:00pm, 19th May, 2024.

Submissions (13)

TheGreatestBanana125/19/2024

I get my music that I need for videos from a YouTube channel called Breaking Copyright they allow you to use the music provided you give them credit in the video description. The channel has a wide variety of music from different music artists so usually you can find something that will suit your needs .

Asim5/19/2024

For me it would have to be free music archive, handy to get some music to use to attach to any videos you use online, youtube instagram or tiktok, straight to the point too

Lanah Tyra5/18/2024

Won$3

Pictures

I don't like to use AI generated pictures, so all the stuff I use for thumbnails are either screenshots from the games or comes from the press kit kindly provided by the developers. I highly suggest to check what is available in a press kit for the game you want to cover, often there is music as well, or trailers and other video footage you can use for a review video for example.

Music

I either use ingame soundtrack which is allowed to use with the game content (this is what I did for my FFXVI guides) or there are some good copyright-free playlists on both Youtube and Spotify which you can use on your streams or for your videos. My new favourite is from the cozy game and management tool SpiritCityLofi (I will cover this in an article, that game changed my life) which has an inbuilt music player. It plays from different copy-right free playlists, so you can use these as background music for your streams and videos as well, and comes in very handy if you are like me and use this game as a project management tool, running on the side anyway while you work. Playlists in the game are from this artist:

https://www.youtube.com/@HomeworkRadio

Ko-fi / Etsy shops

There are some artists mostly on Ko-fi who offer their stream overlays and other assets for free, only asking to credit them on your channel if you will be using the assets on monetised streams. I did pay for the ones I got, and I assume most people will, but not having a set price attached to these products is really great as creators who are just starting out and can't afford to pay a lot can also make use of them. I got my FFXIV overlays from this artis:

Sinclair5/17/2024

Won$3

If you want some Anime-like music for Opening Stream or smth, i may recommend you for using DOVA-SYNDROME ! they had A LOT of Free Music that you can use, Just Credit them on your desc and its Done!

https://www.youtube.com/@DOVASYNDROMEYouTubeOfficial

Laser-Bicep5/17/2024

Won$3

I get all my assest from micosoft copilot. the advantage to this is that you wont encounter anything copyrighted or grey areas as you are using generated content. The other big plus is that when you sign up for free with copilot it gives you access to the gpt 4 engine which is normally paid for when you are signed up to normal chat gpt. plus you can get it for your phone as an app aswell.