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The Met puts Artwork into Public Domain

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The Met Places Over 375,000 Artworks into the Public Domain for Unrestricted Use by Christopher Jobson on February 9, 2017

< click link (above) to navigate to www.thisiscolossal.com and read the article >​

Earlier this week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that more than 375,000 images found in the museum’s online collection are now available for free and unrestricted use. For Instance:

Sparrow's Title: "I Know Somebody Who Should See This:"​
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Tons of Artwork now FREE for unrestricted use including for Commercial Purpose without any attribution needed. It's almost as if you are quoting your own stuff, because you are, all the rights belong to you (Public Domain) and they are in a category called, [OPEN ACCESS]

WIKI defines 'Open Access': said:
There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature. By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
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How cool is FREE?!?

Dear Mod(s): Sparrow couldn't figure out the best sub-forum to POST in. It was a toss up b/w here and there (The Lounge and Current Events). I hope this, my best guess, works well enough. It was my intention to keep this and all things posted hereafter light (casual) and not to spark debate.

< Feel free to move me if'n ya want to >​
 
Newsweek said:
Nonprofit group Creative Commons has released a search engine which makes it easy to search for free and legal images, music and text.
Newsweek Article by Anthony Cuthbertson on 2/8/17
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CC Search is described by its developers as a “front door to the universe of openly licensed content,”
https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/

Although I'm not a big "Edge," "Bing" or "IE" fan and typically stay away from Microsoft search thingies, I do like the ability to search according to image. Let's say you're surfing the web and you come across a picture you like. Maybe something like this:
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But do you have permission to use it? Who is the artist, how do you ascribe accreditation?

Right-click the image /// Choose: Bing Lookup ---> & you may explore(!) stuff with new eyes: Lots of options including a variety of size choices.
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It's very easy to see this is Daniel Bonnell's Baptism of Christ
 
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Sparrowhawke
Thanks for the info.

This is the third time this week that I have seen this photo of Frederick Douglas, in Jake's history book and in a video about Abe Lincoln.
I didn't know that some historical scholars believe one of the reasons that Lincoln was against slavery was because of his own life experience. Lincoln loved school and learning. He only had one year of education before his father pulled him out of school and rented him out to others as a laborer. He had to give all his wages to his father. Lincoln wrote about how a man was worth his labor and should not be forced to work without pay. I don't think that it is a leap to say that Frederick Douglas was of the same mind.
 
The Public Domain will grow again in 2019
In the US, annual copyright term expiry is set to begin again in 2019, after a 20-year hiatus due to the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. On January 1, 2019, items published in 1923 will enter the public domain in the US. In the early days of Project Gutenberg, growth of the public domain on January 1 was an annual event.

(( see more at Project Gutenberg ))

LoudLit (Literature for your eyes and ears) is the perfect companion for your Project Gutenberg books
Public Domain text from Project Gutenberg with Creative Commons Audio
For example: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin' (Read and Listen link)
 


You're probably already familiar with CCEL but the link is available by clicking the pic (above) ^
 
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