Need More Public Domain Material?
from the whopping-plentitude dept

The Public Domain may not be growing (thanks to endless retroactive copyright term extensions) but it still contains a "whopping plentitude." The biggest challenge to users is simply discovering PD works in the first place. Fortunately the Open Knowledge Foundation (one of the best Free Culture organizations anywhere) has just given everyone a leg up with its new web site, the Public Domain Review. From their About page:
The Public Domain Review aspires to become a bounteous gateway into the whopping plenitude that is the public domain, helping our readers to explore this rich terrain by surfacing unusual and obscure works, and offering fresh reflections and unfamiliar angles on material which is more well known.Go there to find all kinds of delicious images, texts, sounds, and other treasures that, thanks to our collective cultural amnesia, are as fresh and exciting as anything Big Media tries to force down our throats today.
Crossposted from ninapaley.com.
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Thank you.
This is a non-profit from what I read and they are making available point clouds of ancient sites great for those wanting to build ancient locations in Blender.
http://archive.cyark.org/gallery.
And there is also other places to find some CC0 content.
http://opengameart.org/content/pato
http://opengameart.org/content/pirate(ok not CC0 but CC 3.0 GPL3)
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Just in time?
(Luckily, it's a well-known documentary photographer, so at least there's a good chance to find it if it's still under copyright. I think.)
It's really frustrating though. The amount of fruitless searching I'm doing shows me how tempting it is to just go ahead & use the photo and cross my fingers that it won't be noticed. Ugh.
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http://www.sunsteinlaw.com/practices/copyright-portfolio-development/flowchart.htm
Mo re sources:
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
http://www.whatiscopyright.org/
http://www.copyright.gov/
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/charts_tools/
Probably what you wanted.
Welcome to the Digital Image Rights Computator!
http://www.vraweb.org/resources/ipr/dirc/page_1.html
No it may be in the public domain depending on how the guy released it, but by judiging the date there(80's) you probably need to find the release terms to prove it.
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As a rule of thumb that work in the 80's is still copyrighted so you either get permission or don't use it.
Those copyrighted works are probably lost forever for people since they keep retroactively expanding them.
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I can't use a different photo because this is a repress and if we're going to use the original art, well, yeah. I can't substitute another photo, or at least I can't without a lot of back and forth with the band.
P.S.- I've found the photo in a college's photography collection. They should know if the image is public domain or not.
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Re: Re: Re: Just in time? its a drawing
it does not show ANY form of 'culture' that could be considerd unique. two guys picking up sticks, saying nothing about where, when, why, or anything else, it could just as easily be from china, or europe.
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I just thought it was a sweet coincidence that this article popped up while I was in photo-library search hell.
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Since photos taken in the 1950's were "in its first term" as of Jan. 1, 1978, when the modern copyright terms first started. Those have a maximum of 28 years from first publication, unless the copyright holder renews the copyright, in which case they get another 67 years.
So, unless they actually renewed the copyright, it should be in the public domain. Since renewal isn't automatic, there should be a record of it in the Library of Congress. You might even be able to find it at the Copyright Office web site.
If it's not registered there, it's safe to assume it's now public domain.
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ok pic,
looks a bit different now, but nice pic.. Any pic of Australia is Nice... should be more green though :)
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what free curture ?
What does that picture have to show you about early Australia settlers ?
because you have seen that picture do you now 'have' that Australian early settlers culture ?
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of course, but pictures are small parts of culture, kind of like puzzle pieces
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If it is not 'YOUR' culture, no matter how many pictures you have or how much you study it, or how many puzzle peices you put together, it is not and will never be YOUR culture.
its a very American centric character coming through, USA as a Country, does not really have much of it's own 'culture' to attach too, and it's the American way to think 'we want that, so we can just buy it, or take it from some other group'.
I am very interested in Australian Aboriginal culture, but no matter what I know about it, or what I acquire in the way of art or literature, I can never be A PART of that culture, I can never purchase enough items to state that "I have that culture".
I find it odd to think that there are people who believe they can buy and sell 'culture', or that somehow you have a 'right' to take the culture of another group to call your own !!!!
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Damn...
The party's over. Get used to it.
There has to be something Congress can do to either stop this disgusting wholesale conglomeration of 'free' or at least pass a law making it a crime to publicize and promote it.
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LOL! Looks like I'm channeling the shills pretty good.
Fooled ya.
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I dare anybody visit the onion and try to tell if it isn't real news.
Somewhere along the line, we've crossed into the bizzaro world thanks to the rich greedy bastards in charge. It's madness I tell you!
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How long?
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searchable
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