Everyone wants to download and use images from the web for free. Thankfully, public domain images make it possible without getting into a legal mess. We've rounded up the best places to download ...

Getty Images charges people thousands of dollars to use photos that belong to the public. ... Getty’s library of public-domain images is vast, and its rates aren’t cheap.

Maps, posters, manuscripts, sheet music, drawings, photographs, letters, ancient texts: Thousands of items in the public domain are now offered as high-resolution downloads. No library card necessary.

Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain The launch of a new open access platform ushers in a new era of accessibility for the Institution Katherine J. Wu - Correspondent ...

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 ...

B.J. Novak’s example raises questions about the potential misuse of images in the social media age, when photos can be repurposed all over the internet.

These images were captured by NASA, but were released into the public domain, as most non-classified imagery owned by the government is (or was then) _automatically_ in the public domain.

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 ...

As of this week, images of these artifacts, part of a trove of 2.8 million digital pictures and 3-D models, will be in the public domain for the first time under the Smithsonian's new Open Access ...