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Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by RobotToaster »

graemep wrote: post #20
robin_reala wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>There is a possible problem with countries where a photographer can have copyright over their photograph of an earlier work.

To be specific, Germany is one of the few countries where this applies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

It's an absolutely stupid idea IMO.

Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by brettermeier »

AltruisticGapHN wrote: post #19

Superb site. Just annoying in the Infinite View it keeps opening random pages when I just want to drag and scroll.

Unfortunately, the infinite scroll page doesn't work very well... but this one scrolls normal and doesn't open random pages, and it seems to be the same stream of picutures: https://pdimagearchive.org/galleries/all/random/desc

Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by troupo »

samcgraw wrote: post #12

This is just the kind of thing I love about the open internet: the insane amount of art available in archives, (e.g. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/ , https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en , the Met, etc). Adding this to the list for one of my side projects[0]. [0] https://flaneur.ink

For your sife project, it would be nice to see a preview of what you're sending

Edit: I saw the small link to examples :)

Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by wongarsu »

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…

Search for public records about the image. If you can confirm the author is dead for at least 70 years (in case the author originally held the copyright) and the work is at least 120 years old or was published more than 95 years ago (in case this was work for hire) you are good

For younger works other conditions might make a work public domain, like the work being created by a US federal government employee as part of their duties

Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by neilv »

bawolff wrote: post #14
mmh0000 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Exactly. The site mentions that and some other problems, and just disclaimers their liability. One problem I didn't see mentioned directly is that some venues have additional bureaucratic rules.

For example, I saw a writer-artist complain that they couldn't show the big ebook store proof that they'd licensed the art for their cover, since they painted it themself, and there was no documentation licensing it to them.

So one could use practical advice from someone who's figured out the rules, and has the battle scars, like: "With public domain art, just make sure you do X and avoid Y; otherwise, there's a 50% chance that a random copyright check the first week will result in your book temporarily being shadowbanned, and you won't get the crucial early sales while the algorithm is trialing exposure of your book in searches and categories, and then the algorithm will pretty much never show your book to anyone ever again."

Re: Public Domain Image Archive

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Post by bawolff »

neilv wrote: post #27
bawolff wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Exactly. The site mentions that and some other problems, and just disclaimers their liability. One problem I didn't see mentioned directly is that some venues have additional bureaucratic rules. For example, I saw a writer-artist complain that they couldn't show the big ebook store proof that they'd licensed the art for their cover, since they painted it themself, and there was no documentation licensing it to them.…

Fwiw, i think wikimedia commons has some really good help pages on what is and is not public domain:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Public_domain

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panora...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reuse_of_PD-Art_p...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:De_minimis

Of course sometimes its just a risk trade off, and depends more on how the publisher feels then what the actual rules are.

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