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School of Media, Arts and Humanities - for students and staff

Useful links

Royalty Free Stock Footage

  • Royal free footage that is completly free for commerical use. However please note Trademarks, logos, or brands that appear in Videos and People’s images if they are recognizable in the Videos will require further permissions. 

  • Mazwai.com is a resource for free stock footage and moving images, created with one clear mission: to give creators around the world free access to beautiful stock footage, with simple licensing.

  • Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license

Royalty Free Stock Music and Sound

  • Probably the best-known collection of open-sourced sound files. Mixed rights, so you should check and follow the rights declared of each file indervidually.

  • Youtube audio library. Ostensibly for use in youtube videos, but rights-free so can be used anywhere. Music and sound effects

  • A project to make accessible the huge library of recorded materials available in the US Library of Congress collection, many of which are public-domain. The full collection at is a little harder to navigate, but also contains video, pictographic and written materials. Rights and permissions are mixed, so you should check and follow the rights declared to each file.

  • Huge library of NASA sound - space, rockets, speeches, mission radio comms etc. Educational use only, and use should be attributed.

  • A great source for royalty free music of various genres. Mixed rights - mostly attribution required

  • The BBC SFX library with over 16,000 sound effects. We have this in CD form on campus and they are also on the Teaching Drive. Not for commercial use.

  • Free sound effects and royalty free music. Attribution required.

  • Free and royalty free sound effects and music. Attribution required.

  • Free and royalty free sound effects.

  • Free and royalty free sound effects.

  • Sound FX from Adobe

  • Extensive collection of free music and sound effects, as well as motion graphics and video clips. No login required.

Royalty Free Fonts