Copyright: general copyright information from Wikipedia. Before using OER it is essential to understand what is meant by “open” and how to distinguish between free and non-free resources
Public domain: it means something that can be used without limits as any intellectual property right does not exist (anymore), for example the terms of copyright have expired. It is useful to know what this means because many literary, musical or artistic works used in school are now in the public domain
Creative Commons: type of license on intellectual works that allows their use under certain conditions (e.g. citation of the author), specified by the type of license. Many intellectual property is covered by these types of licenses.
GNU FDL (Free Documentation License): type of “copyleft” license used for educational material and software manuals
Guide of the University of Bologna for the didactic use of resources protected by copyright
Freely downloadable images
Pixabay: a “mine” of images and videos freely usable and searchable based on various criteria
Public Domain Archive: collection of public domain images searchable by categories and keywords
Pexels: another collection of freely usable images, searchable by keywords
Freeimages: collection of freely usable images, searchable by categories and keywords
Stokio: site with photos, vector images, icons and free font fonts
Photo for class: collection of free images suitable for educational use
Wikimedia Commons: repository of images and other multimedia material in the public domain or with free licenses
CanWeImage: image search engine in the Wikimedia Commons repository
Music
Classiccat: collection of royalty-free music files (classical music)
Soundgator: after free registration, it is possible to download mp3 files of sound effects, ambient noises, etc…
Video
Youtube: the largest repository of movies, where you can find everything and more. Useful to subscribe to the many video channels, educational and not only, which offer video collections and even full movies in streaming (eg Movie On or Films & Clips)
Vimeo: another repository, with many videos useful for teaching
Rai Scuola: RAI educational videos, for some time now for teachers and after logging in, it is possible to organize real lessons with links to different videos
WhatchKnowLearn: repository of videos in English, searchable by subject and by age
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