Inherent in the idea of Open Access is the principle that information and knowledge should be shared and developed upon collaboratively without restrictive copyright laws.
A current environment of social networking and crowd sourcing has seen the development of another strong sub-culture - Open Access Multimedia.
Within this culture of the scholarly and academic Open Access movement, development and use of various media is growing.
You may find images on the web and think it is easy to just cut and paste; however, you cannot use graphics, videos, and images from the web without determining usage permissions and copyright levels.
These websites provide copyright-friendly images you can use freely as long as you abide by any terms of use provided by the owner of the content.
Before you use any of the music found on these websites read the terms of use and abide by those rules.
Before you use any of the videos found on these websites read the terms of use and abide by those rules.