How To Find Quality Public Domain Images & Photos

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PDClipart.org - Public Domain Clip Art

PDClipart.org is a HUGE collection of public domain clip art. The collection is FREE and NO REGISTRATION is required.

PD Photo - Free Photos And Pictures (public domain, stock pictures, wallpaper, royalty free, clip art, etc)

PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use. But if you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that standards for such use are higher. Specifically, you should assume no model release was obtained. And pictures featuring products or property should be used with care. The photos are here to be used, but I don't want you to get either of us in trouble over it.

Public Domain Pictures, Free Pictures, Royalty Free Stock Photos

Royalty free stock photos. All pictures are free for commercial and personal use.

If you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that no model release was obtained and pictures featuring products or property should be used with care.

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5000 Free Stock Photos

All photos on this web site are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial. But if some photo contains logos and products you need to be careful. someone else's trademark commercially can get you sued.

Wikimedia Commons

A database of 5,023,983 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

Incredible Clip Art & Images

The most comprehensive list of free clip art & photos links on the internet!

Free Culture & the Philosophy of the GNU Project

I will freely admit to finding these links via Leo Babauta's "Open Source Blogging: Feel Free to Steal My Content"

== Free Culture ==

Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, CODE and THE FUTURE OF IDEAS, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet.

Now, in FREE CULTURE, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.

Philosophy of the GNU Project - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

This page lists a series of articles describing the philosophy of the free software movement, which is the motivation for our development of the free software operating system GNU.

Open Source Blogging: Feel Free to Steal My Content

I'm not a big fan of copyright laws anyway, especially as they're being applied these days by corporations, used to crack down on the little guys so they can continue their large profits.

Copyrights are often touted as protecting the artist, but in most cases the artist gets very little while the corporations make most of the money. I'm trying this experiment to see whether releasing copyright really hurts the creator of the content.

I think, in most cases, the protectionism that is touted by "anti-piracy" campaigns and lawsuits and lobbying actually hurts the artist. Limiting distribution to protect profits isn't a good thing.