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Where to Announce Free Graphic Art?
BrynM asks: "I have a good portion of my deceased father's artwork scanned and up on a personal website (294 images with everything from sketches to finished work). I have been adding more in batches and should end up with around 1,000 images when done. My sister and I have released the art under the Free Media License, which is much like a GPL for art. We have also set a date on paper that the art falls into the public domain regardless of what laws may change in between (avoiding the eternal copyright stuff). My hope is that people will utilize the art, since the only gain I desire is to share the pride in the work my father did. Where can I announce that the site is open to the graphics and stock art geeks out there? Since the server can't take a full slashdotting (DSL), that's out. Are there any sites that specialize in public domain or commons type art sites without having to submit every piece to an unknown body?"
http://opart.org
deviantart
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If you have the ability to do thumbnails somewhere, you could zip a bunch in a folder (tar.gz or PKZIP or whatever) and use FreeCache to save bandwidth - they only cache stuff over 5 MB, though, so you'd have to have a way for people to see samples and choose which set of images they want before they download 'em.
Don't forget the Creative Commons, which also offers a directory of CC-licensed art.
If you're interested in eventually ceding the work to the public domain, you should definitely examine the Founder's Copyright, which sounds a lot like what you're already trying to do. This might be better than simply writing it down on a "piece of paper", because this is a full legal contract and procedure.