If you're looking to add some flavor to your blog or any other online project, getting public-domain photos, audio, and video is a great way to do it. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...
The Library of Congress hosts a vast library of public domain images that can be used for anything you want, including commercial use. And they occasionally curate small collections from their ...
From Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe A Gand (1845-1880) (all images courtesy the Biodiversity Heritage Library) “We need the tonic of wildness,” writes Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 ...
A Berlin court has ruled that digitising paintings that are in the public domain creates new copyrights, even if the intent is to create a faithful image rather than produce an artistic interpretation ...
On January 1, 2025, copyrights will expire for books, films, comic strips, musical compositions and other creative works from 1929, as well as sound recordings from 1924 Ellen Wexler - Assistant ...
Are these heads creepy? Yes. Are they copyright violations? As of 2024, probably not. Credit: Daniel Knighton via Getty Images Jan. 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day in the United States — the day a bunch ...
A Charlie Parker alto sax. The original patent model for the Singer sewing machine. Around 75,000 specimens of bees. All of these live in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, the sprawling ...
Jan. 1 is Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use and abuse to their hearts' content. The works of art, music, ...