Educational Video Sites
Video resources on the open web:
- ArtBabbleShowcases high-definition videos on art. Launched by the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
- Library of Congress YouTube Channel"Timeless treasures and contemporary presentations from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C."
- Moving Images Archive (Internet Archive)Free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
- Vanderbilt Television News ArchiveThe Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world’s most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC’s Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events.
- YouTube EDUVideos and channels of universities and colleges on YouTube.
Film Stills
Film Grab: " A growing archive of stills from the best films ever"
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Multimedia search engines:
Remix and Fair Use
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online VideoThis document "helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use."
- Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair UseHandbook written by veteran filmmakers to help other filmmakers understand some instances where using copyrighted material without clearance is considered fair use.
- Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated VideoReport by the Center for Social Media, American University.
- YouTube Creative Commons SearchIn YouTube, after you've done an initial search, you can filter results by Creative Commons. When you watch the video, expand the captioning information below the video by clicking on "More info." It will show what type of Creative Commons license has been applied to the video.