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Public Domain Image Repositories?

Posted by Cliff on from the images-unfettered-by-IP dept.

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?"

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  1. Free images here by noitalever · · Score: 5, Informative

    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-)

  2. istockphoto.com by iosphere · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Nasa also does not copyright by noitalever · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Any of it's images

    here is a clip from their copyright statement...

    The NASA, JPL, USGS, and NGDC images are in the public domain, but please give them credit when using their images. The following are two statements by NASA:
    No copyright is asserted for these images. If a recognizable person appears in an image, use for commercial purposes may infringe a right of privacy or publicity. These images may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or by any NASA employee of a commercial product, process or service, or used in any other manner that might mislead. Accordingly, it is requested that if these images are used in advertising and other commercial promotion, layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release.
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston TX, 77058



    All of the images presented on NSSDC's Photo Gallery are in the public domain. As such, they may be used for any purpose. NSSDC does ask, however, that you acknowledge NSSDC as the supplier of the data. In addition, where the source of the image (by project or as a specific person) is credited in the text, you should also acknowledge that, too.

  4. My favorite online images: Library of Congress by Bob+Bitchen · · Score: 5, Informative

    This might well be the most amazing repository of images and documents on the planet.
    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_c opr.html

    It's yours so enjoy it!

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    http://tinyurl.com/3t236