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Public Domain Image Repositories?
musicmaster asks: "If you search the net for free drawings you will find a lot of them, but usually they are free for private use only. I tried to look for drawings that are really free - that is public domain, but I didn't find very much. Wikipedia has some images - scanned from books with expired copyrights - but not much Could you help me further?"
This site here, http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ claims that you can use the pics for whatever you see fit.
No, I don't work there... They also say that you can't use them in collections, which I suppose is their way of saying that they don't want you taking all of their images and doing what they are doing with them... 8-)
you are looking for images that is public domain on the internet? works of art usually have to be at least half a decade old or to have their copyrights expired...
tho you could always rip pics from the antique roadshow online =)
Great Atrocit
Check out www.istockphoto.com. You can download a couple images for free, but after that you need to put up something like fifty cents an image to help with bandwidth and such. But once you download an image, it's yours to do with as you please. The images are of pretty good quality, and there's a decent selection.
This might well be the most amazing repository of images and documents on the planet.
c opr.html
They have different sizes of most images. In some cases they have very large (multi-megabyte) TIFF images.
Check this out, these are panorama images: (really beautiful) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pansubjindex1.html
It is really amazing what you can find: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
This is a good link too:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
Some are public domain and some are not
This link describes the many different copyrights and restrictions:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_
It's yours so enjoy it!
http://tinyurl.com/3t236
"Our goal with Wikipedia is to create a free encyclopedia--indeed, the largest encyclopedia in history, both in terms of breadth and depth. We also want Wikipedia to become a reliable resource. It's an ambitious goal, and it will take many years to achieve it." Pretty cool!
Found this page with plenty of links to public domain images while I was reading about the project.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Actually this is required by copyright law. The government is not allowed to 'compete' with the general populous. One way this is controlled is by not allowing the government to copyright works created by government employees on government time (see Title 17 United States Code section 105.
There are some copyrights that are owned by the government, but these have to be works that the government bought or commissioned through a contractor. Also, as noted in the first link, some Government created documents / websites contain images that are copyrighted and used by permission. Any third party wishing to use the image would of course have to seperately obtain permission from the copyright holder.
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