This is just the kind of thing I love about the open internet: the insane amount of art available in archives, (e.g. <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/</a>, <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en" rel="nofollow">https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en</a>, the Met, etc).<p>Adding this to the list for one of my side projects[0].<p>[0] <a href="https://flaneur.ink" rel="nofollow">https://flaneur.ink</a>
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.<p>These folks seem to be more up-front about the issue than many sites I’ve seen:<p><a href="https://pdimagearchive.org/reusing-images/" rel="nofollow">https://pdimagearchive.org/reusing-images/</a><p>> <i>On each image page we communicate to the best of our knowledge the rights status of both the underlying work and the digital copy of this work. We provide this information based on a basic knowledge of copyright law and what is communicated by the source institution — it is strictly meant as a guideline and it should not be taken as legal advice. We admit no responsibility for any untoward consequences that may arise through reuse of material featured on our site. If you are requiring certainty as to usage allowed for an image, then you are encouraged to check with the source institution and make your own investigations.</i>
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:<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/artworks/arthur-i-keller/calvin-coolidge-taking-the-oath-of-office" rel="nofollow">https://standardebooks.org/artworks/arthur-i-keller/calvin-c...</a>
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: <a href="https://pdimagearchive.org/galleries/all/random/desc" rel="nofollow">https://pdimagearchive.org/galleries/all/random/desc</a>
Does anyone know how easily you can do "copyright clearance" for these supposedly public domain images?<p>For example, the page for the first image I clicked on said:<p><pre><code> Date
1833
Underlying Rights
Public Domain Worldwide
Digital Rights
No Additional Rights
* Source states “no known restrictions”
* We offer this info as guidance only
</code></pre>
with a link to: <a href="https://pdimagearchive.org/reusing-images/" rel="nofollow">https://pdimagearchive.org/reusing-images/</a><p>If, for example, you design the cover of a self-published book around such an image, is Amazon KDP going to reject it, because they don't accept that screenshot as sufficient proof of rights?
“An old Welsh woman made out of a banana with a nut for her head. The cat is made from two nuts and some matches.”: <a href="https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f658baa9-14be-4002-8b13-789e39b05a04/" rel="nofollow">https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f658baa9-14be-4002-8b13-78...</a>
I do not know how this site managed to break mousewheel scrolling so badly, but I am quite impressed.
Don't websites like these popup every year, almost same images, different design? You never actually know if you can really use those images for free actually..
Looks like PDR finally implemented the "buy a giclée print of anything" feature! Previously you could only buy prints of select works.
I don't know if I'll ever use this but that "Infinite View" is a lot of fun, I just lost 20 minutes before snapping myself out of a trance. Some really cool pictures in there.
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