For years, searching for copyright-free content has required making a difficult choice: either spend valuable time digging through remote archives and clumsy websites, or spend valuable money to access media which supposedly exists for free in the public domain.

Pond5 is about to change all of that.

Today we’re announcing the launch of the Pond5 Public Domain Project: a comprehensive and ever-expanding collection of copyright-free multimedia content that’s accessible for free search, free download and free use.