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Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by bentley »

rectang wrote: post #8

There are lots of sites that provide images that somebody has claimed are public domain. But for significant use, you what you really need is provenance documentation. These folks seem to be more up-front about the issue than many sites I’ve seen: https://pdimagearchive.org/reusing-images/ > On each image page we communicate to the best of our knowledge the rights status of both the underlying work and the digital co…

Standard Ebooks has a database of public domain oil paintings for use as book covers. SE is strict about copyright clearance and requires either scans of a copyright‐expired publication containing the painting, or an explicit statement from a reputable museum that the work is CC0. Here’s an entry I contributed:

https://standardebooks.org/artworks/arthur-i-keller/calvin-c...

Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by zuzululu »

rectang wrote: post #9
zuzululu wrote: post #5

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Eventually there will be successful copyright lawsuits for derivative images produced by LLMs. Copyright laundering is an illusion.

Delulu take but lets say it goes to court, how would they be able to reproduce the entire process that was used to generate the image aka the training, hardware in the tens of millions, reverse engineering and finding their own training data enough to exactly match the output from the frontier models. How would you order them to reveal their proprietary and protected IP so you can then recreate the exact same model , produce the exact same pixel by pixel accurate image, over and over repeatedly enough to satisfy staticians and jury? How would you then rely on this carbon copy of the frontier model to argue the model isn't learning that it's not actually finding the style and applying it to the output, exactly like some art student flipping through other artists work to reproduce it by learning their style

The entire US economy wouldn't be banking on AI if they were just going to let some patreon furry pornographer win a landmark case against the top 5 biggest capitalized company don't you think?

I'll let you keep dreaming if it makes you happy.

Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by bawolff »

mmh0000 wrote: post #4
neilv wrote: post #2

Does anyone know how easily you can do "copyright clearance" for these supposedly public domain images? For example, the page for the first image I clicked on said: Date 1833 Underlying Rights Public Domain Worldwide Digital Rights No Additional Rights * Source states “no known restrictions” * We offer this info as guidance only with a link to: https://pdimagearchive.org/reusing-images/ If, for example, you design th…

Just contact the original author. You may need to pay extra for the Medium.

I know this is a joke, but just as a note, in some european countries, the person who digitized the artwork may have a copyright. It varries a bit by country.

Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by robin_reala »

bentley wrote: post #11
rectang wrote: post #8

There are lots of sites that provide images that somebody has claimed are public domain. But for significant use, you what you really need is provenance documentation. These folks seem to be more up-front about the issue than many sites I’ve seen: https://pdimagearchive.org/reusing-images/ > On each image page we communicate to the best of our knowledge the rights status of both the underlying work and the digital co…

Standard Ebooks has a database of public domain oil paintings for use as book covers. SE is strict about copyright clearance and requires either scans of a copyright‐expired publication containing the painting, or an explicit statement from a reputable museum that the work is CC0. Here’s an entry I contributed: https://standardebooks.org/artworks/arthur-i-keller/calvin-c...

To be specific, this is US public domain only (which is globally non-standard).

Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by graemep »

robin_reala wrote: post #15
bentley wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Standard Ebooks has a database of public domain oil paintings for use as book covers. SE is strict about copyright clearance and requires either scans of a copyright‐expired publication containing the painting, or an explicit statement from a reputable museum that the work is CC0. Here’s an entry I contributed: https://standardebooks.org/artworks/arthur-i-keller/calvin-c...

To be specific, this is US public domain only (which is globally non-standard).

Nothing is globally standard.

On the other hand they do allow search by century and very little from the 19th (and none earlier) century is still in copyright anywhere.

There is a possible problem with countries where a photographer can have copyright over their photograph of an earlier work. Again, there is not global standard.

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