Commons:Free media resources/Photography

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Here are a number of sources of public domain images on the Web.

The presence of a resource on this list does not guarantee that all or any of the images in it are in the public domain: you are still responsible for checking the copyright status of images before you submit them to Wikipedia.

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Sources for media

[edit] General

  • America As It Was - a huge resource for vintage postcards in the U.S., organized by state. Any postcard first published in the U.S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD. Lots of photos, aerial views, and maps of many U.S. locations.
  • PicFindr - A "rich internet app" image search that finds free-to-use-commercially stock photography on other websites. Search by tag/keyword and usage restriction (none,permission,attribution etc..)
  • Flickr: The Commons - "Describing the world's public photo collections." Many images with "no known copyright restrictions."
  • Flickr - Flickr is a big photo sharing website. It has many pictures licenced with Creative Commons Attribution License and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. (Search both)
    Beware that Flickr is a problematic source – many images are acceptable, but many are not. See Commons:Problematic sources#Flickr and Commons:Flickr images for details.
  • PDphoto.org - Free Public Domain Photo Database.
  • Yotophoto - Search engine for free licenced photos. (Link is "under construction" as of 2009-02-04.)
  • Public Domain Stock Photos - Not a big collection, but valuable.
  • Gnu art - Media by GNU GPL licence.
  • Free Online Pictures various pictures, especially of France, under a "no rights reserved" license (use {{FOLP|path}} template)
  • Agência Brasil official agency of the Brasilian government, has pictures of Brasilian officials, including on official trips and meeting foreign dignitaries (use {{{Agência Brasil|photo number}}} template)
  • OpenPhoto.net - fairly random collection, looks like aiming to be a "stock photography" site. Be sure to check the license carefully as they also have NC/ND images! Free registration required to download full-res images (login:commons pw:wikimedia)
  • OpenCage's Photo Library - various pictures, especially of Japan. All pictures licenced with Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License in Japanese.
  • Trashwiki - many free images (under various licenses) about dumpster diving and freeganism.
  • Photosynth -many of the Photosynths are under Creative Commons licenses. I don't see any way of downloading the original photos from the synth, so you'll have to contact the uploader.
  • Images from LIFE hosted by Google - Huge collection under various copyright status. Many public domain ones, although with false copyright claims.

[edit] Objects

[edit] Aeroplanes

[edit] Archeological finds

[edit] Christianity related

[edit] Automobiles

[edit] Food

[edit] Furniture

[edit] Music

[edit] Paintings

Check the local laws. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.

[edit] Satellites

[edit] Ships

[edit] Animals and plants

[edit] Animals

[edit] Birds

[edit] Fish

[edit] Insects

[edit] Extinct animals

[edit] Plants

[edit] Crops

[edit] Fruits/Vegetables

[edit] Protists

[edit] Nature/Science

[edit] Landscape features (mountains, deserts, craters, etc)

[edit] Medicine

[edit] Physics

[edit] Space (planets, stars, galaxies, etc) and spaceflight

[edit] Underwater

[edit] US National Parks

[edit] Weather

[edit] Chemistry

  • http://157.98.10.135/Main_Pages/pub-Structures-list-tr.html (structure diagrams of toxic substances)
  • http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/services/gifcreator/ Will generate (copyright kosher) GIFs or PNGs from molecular description files of may formats. Use {{CACTVSGIF}} for copyright on image page. Valid input formats include: MDL Molfile (or SD files), PDB, JCAMP/CS, CIF (Chiron interchange format, not Crystallographic formats), MDL RXN (Reaction file), RDF (Reaction Data File format), XYZ, SMD4, SMD5, CTX, CACTVS (binary, ascii, cbase), SMILES (including SMARTS subset), Compass, 441, Gaussian/Input, Gaussian/Archive, SCF, SHEL-X, XTEL (XTELPlot input format), Cerius (Ascii exchange format of CeriusII Toolkit), Sharc (SHift ARChives format), Alchemy, Hyperchem, Molconn-Z, Sybyl, Sybyl2, SLN (Sybyl line notation).
  • German mirror to the above: http://www2.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/services/gifcreator/

[edit] History

[edit] Historical images

Check copyright information for the separate items before deciding to use them!

[edit] Specific periods

[edit] People

[edit] Historical costumes

[edit] Movies

[edit] Locations

[edit] Cities

[edit] Machine-readable raw map data

[edit] Maps

[edit] Antarctic

[edit] Australia

[edit] Bangladesh

[edit] Botswana

[edit] Bulgaria

[edit] Canada

[edit] Cuba

[edit] Denmark

  • PDFnet - Danish site with no copyright.

[edit] Egypt

[edit] Finland

[edit] France

(may not work)

"Il est permis de copier et de diffuser des copies exactes de cette page ; une telle copie exacte devant surtout garder la notice originale de copyright, l'URL originale, la date de l'original, et la présente notice." (The copying and distribution of exact copies of this page is allowed, but exact copies must always keep the original copyright notice, the original URL, the date, and this notice [that is, the french text, not this translation])

[edit] Germany

Some chapters of German parties, federal, state and communal level, or politicians release photos under free licenses on Flickr:

Bündnis90/Die Grünen
SPD


Die Linke

[edit] Ghana

[edit] India

[edit] Iran

[edit] Ireland

[edit] Israel

[edit] Japan

[edit] Luxembourg

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Middle East

[edit] Panama

[edit] Puerto Rico

[edit] South Africa

[edit] Switzerland

[edit] Thailand

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] USA

[edit] New York

[edit] Oregon

[edit] Vermont

[edit] Washington

[edit] Uzbekistan

[edit] West Indies

[edit] Zambia

[edit] Zimbabwe

[edit] Various

[edit] Art

Pictogram voting info.svg Info: Since August 2008, Commons policy allows the uploading of faithful reproductions of 2D public domain works of art, regardless of any claim to copyright made under local law to the contrary.

[edit] Logos and flags

[edit] Sports

[edit] U.S. postage stamps

While not technically public domain after 1978 (all stamps before that are in the public domain) the USPS has a liberal licensing policy regarding stamps. The United States Postal Service retains copyright to stamps under Title 17 of the United States Code. The Domestic Mail Manual, G013 Trademarks and Copyrights, states that while "The USPS secures copyrights in its philatelic designs and certain publications. The designs of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, stamped cards, aerogrammes, souvenir cards, and other philatelic items issued on or after January 1, 1978, are copyrighted by the USPS under title 17 USC." The USPS licenses certain copyrighted material to the public, however, thus:

The use of illustrations of the designs covered by such copyrights is permitted:
a. In editorial matter in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, philatelic catalogs, and philatelic albums.

For the full document, see: http://pe.usps.gov/text/DMM/g013.htm.

An encyclopedia is considered a book, therefore, Wikipedia, an on-line encyclopedia, could be considered within this permitted use. However Wikipedia, is licensed under the GFDL, and as such "permitted use" for Wikipedia alone is not enough. It should also be "permitted use" for all derivative works.

[edit] Army

[edit] Government

[edit] General collections

Not dead, but not working either
If any page or image seems missing, replace http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey in its URI with http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Flickr

See also Commons:Flickr images.

Free search:

Free tags:

[edit] Institutions

[edit] Other

[edit] Uncategorized links

[edit] U.S. Government sites

Other sites:

[edit] Computer-generated public domain images

[edit] Public domain image meta-resources

Dover Publications has many, many books of copyright-free illustrations. Search on "copyright-free", "clip art" or "Pictorial Archive". These are hard copy and would have to be scanned, but they cover everything. You have to buy the books or borrow them from the library; the art is free. Here are just a few examples:

  • Plants: 2,400 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Flowers, Trees, Fruits and Vegetables
  • Animals: 1,419 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc.
  • Ready-to-Use Illustrations of World-Famous Places: 109 Different Copyright-Free Designs
  • Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Pets: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
  • Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Appliances and Electronics: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
  • Ready-to-Use Portraits of Famous People: 121 Copyright-Free Designs
  • Ready-to-Use Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Mammals Illustrations: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
  • Ready-to-Use Illustrations of Marine Animals: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
  • Ready-to-Use Authentic Civil War Illustrations: 245 Different Copyright-Free Designs
  • Ready-to-Use Bird Illustrations: 98 Different Copyright-Free Designs
  • Ready-to-Use Flower Illustrations: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
  • Ready-to-Use Endangered Animals Illustrations: 96 Different Copyright-Free Designs
  • Ready-to-Use Medieval Herb, Plant and Flower Illustrations: 294 Different Copyright-Free Designs
  • Airplanes of the Second World War Coloring Book 46 accurate illustrations copyright-free.
  • Weapons and Armor, 1400 copyright-free illustrations of battle-axes, bows & arrows, cannons, more
  • Transportation, 525 copyright-free illustrations include trains, trolleys, cars, ships, airplanes, many other vehicles.
  • http://openclipart.org/wiki/Clipart_Acquisition
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