How to get Free Copyright free Images ?

Sources for Copyright free images/Photos

What is Image with copyright 

Copyright is a legal right, existing in many countries, that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine under what conditions and whether his original work may be used by others. 

Use of works protected by copyright law without permission by violating certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works will invite legal consequences. 

If you are going to apply for Google AdSense, all the possibilities are there that they will reject your application if you use copyright images without a proper license. 

It is to be ensured that the images/ photos taken from the internet for your websites, blogs or for any commercial use are copyright free. Below are the major platforms which provide copyright free images, watermark-free images without or with attribution. Cross-checking is requested since there might be policy changes on time to time.

1. Pexels

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Thousands of royalty free images are available on Pexels. Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through their discover pages. You can use all images on Pexels for free, even for commercial use. All images are completely royalty free. You can use them for any project you want including blogs, websites, apps, art or other commercial use cases.

By providing free stock photos Pexels helps millions of creators all over the world to easily create beautiful products and designs. 

2. Pixabay

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Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under Creative Commons CC0, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.

You can copy, modify, distribute, and use the images, even for commercial purposes, all without asking for permission or giving credits to the artist. However, depicted content may still be protected by trademarks, publicity or privacy rights

3. Unsplash

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Founded 4 years ago as a humble Tumblr blog, Unsplash has grown into one of the leading photography community. It’s become a source of inspiration for everyone from award-winning writers like Deepak Chopra to industry-titans like Apple, and millions of creators worldwide.

More than 550,000 free high-resolution photos are there available for do-whatever-you-want basis which were brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers. You will enjoy being there.

4. Freerange

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Images on this site are either shot by Freerange Stock, drawn from Freerange archives, or contributed by a talented community of photographers. As per Freerange, they want the images to be seen and good photos should be available to everyone for free and they give the collections away with the hope that they will be useful and be enjoyed.

Their Photos either came directly from their in-house photographers and archives or they are contributed by a growing community of creative and talented photographers.

Enjoy and support the team for their great contribution.

5. Flickr

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Flickr is almost one of the best online photo management and sharing application in the world having two main goals: 

• Help the people to make their photos available to the people who matter to them.
• Enable new ways to organize photos and video

Thousands of photographs are available absolutely free for all types of uses. You may also find copyrighted photos too.

Just go there and enjoy. You will get what you are looking for.

6. Life of Pix

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You can find free high-resolution photos, no copyright restrictions for personal and commercial use. New photographs were added every week and are donated to the public domain. Great work isn't it? 

Life of Pix doesn't allow mass distribution of their photographs.  Distributors are allowed to re-post a maximum of 10 images without the written consent of Life of Pix.  It's a network of photographers.

Go there and get what you want.

7. StockSnap

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Whether you're building a business website, creating a print brochure, crafting a digital or magazine ad, or some other brilliant creative project, you know that a great image helps your content transcend "good" and become "great." Compelling, eye-catching, attention-grabbing work on the web especially needs sharp, arresting visual images to succeed.

StockSnap offers beautiful, high-quality stock photos for just about any use you can think of including commercial use for free. There are no tricks, no gimmicks, no fine print; just dazzling images for your creative projects.

Great work!

8. Burst

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Burst is a free stock photo platform that is powered by Shopify. Their image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by their global community of photographers. They built Burst to provide designers, developers, bloggers and entrepreneurs with access to beautiful free stock photography. 

You can use their pictures for just about anything — your website, blog or online store, school projects, Instagram ads, Facebook posts, desktop backgrounds, client work and more. All their photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required.

9. Freepik

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Freepik offers its users, high-quality graphic designs, exclusive illustrations and graphics resources carefully selected by their design team in order to provide their users with great content that can be used in both personal and commercial projects.

They use a freemium business model which means, the majority of the resources offered at Freepik can be used for free, only having to credit the author of the illustration to Freepik. In addition, for a small fee, you can subscribe to the Premium plan and use all our illustrations without any accreditation whatsoever.

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