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Public Domain Art, Books, Images, and Links

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• 4freephotos.com - High quality stock and public domain images free of charge.
• A. Antonov Art, with many images of oil paintings for private use.
• All Free Images- Lots of photos that you can arrange by size, date, and name.
• American Postcard Art These are not public domain images -- but are of value to the art teacher. Lots of images of architecture that would be helpful in your units. Atlanta collection from 1900's to 1940's, plus more than 72,000 different museum-quality art prints online, everything from Art Nouveau Pigeons to Zeppelins
• ArtServe, a large collection of art from the Mediterranean Basin.
• Astronomy Images Database: Messier Catalog. Find more images from NASA 
• Astronomy images from NNSDC. Other image sites
• Awesome Clipart for Kids. Kid & family-friendly free clipart, banners, backgrounds, icons, lines and browser skins, with aliens, animals, cats, creatures, dogs, fonts, holidays, robots, sports, toys, weather, our favorite sites & more - expanded & updated weekly!
• Backgrounds Archive All photographs and background images in Public Domain. Animals, nature, cities, people and more. You do not need to register to save images.
• Barry's Clip Art Server, with clip art by subject.
• Cartoonz Xplored- In their gallery, they have regular and animated clip art.
• Christmas Clip Art Plus Free holiday clip art
• Classroom Clipart- With school-related images by category.
• Clipart ETC- An online service of Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse. They claim to have at least 25,000 of free clipart.
• Clipart.com- You have to put up with a lot of ads, but you eventually get to the free art.
• Clip Art Connection- although they have a paid service, there is some free art here too.
• Clip Art Gallery- a selection of clip art by Discovery Education.
• Copyright Free Photos - copyright free photo library for any use.
• DanceArt.Com, with ballet and dance art.
• Diganta's World, a collection of Holiday ASCII art
• Directory of Free Clip Art Sites - compiled by Lynne Levy, Ed.D. Schaub Instructional Technology Center Rowan University
• Discovery Education's Clip Art Gallery- With many categories!
• Dr. Zeus' Textures. Backgrounds made with photographs.
• EB Awareness Graphics- You can download free clip art of fairies and angels.
• Eos Development Resources- A large collection of free graphics such as textures, borders and buttons.
• ESL / EFL Clip Art- For those who are dealing with students whose native language isn't English.
• Fighter Jetz- A collection of free photos of military fighter planes from around the world.
• Fiona's Shark Mania, a site with shark clip art, graphics, and stories.
• Free Christmas Clipart.
• Freefoto - offering free images to educators. They claim to have over 121,099 images.
• Free Artistic Photos- A collection of free photos by category.
• FreePhotos.se - all public domain photographs.  A collection of nature, animals, buildings, flowers, winter scenes and more. This site is by Magnus Rosendahl, Sweden.
• Freeze Clip art- You can select images sizes up to 640X480.
• Geek Philosopher- Barbara Hocking - Public Domain Photographs. Food, nature, people, animals and more - See more links to images at bottom of page.
• IAD's free stuff page- Where you can find a lot more free stuff!
• Images, Audio, and Video Clip - Public Domain image sources compiled by Alix Peshette, Davis Joint Unified School District. Some resources on the sites are from copyrighted sources and must be acknowledged as such (sites allow Fair Use for educational purposes).
• The Jolly Roger GIF animation Gallery, where you are free to pirate any image.
• Kaboose Clip Art- They have a lot of categories.
• Karen's Whimsy Public Domain Images Scans by Karen Hatzigeorgiou - engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly. See her artwork - altered books and collage
• Kid's Domain, with a lot of clip art.

• Library of Congress, with prints and photographs in the public domain.
• LifeArt Studios with free medical clip art.
• Mark Harden's FTP Site for Art Images, with over 1,300 images. These are not in public domain, but can be used by art teachers for PowerPoint and in class use.
• Medical and Science Clip Art Free Medical and Science clip Art from 3D Science.com.
• Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media- large collection of clip art arranged by category. Also see their Clip Art Blog.
• Music Roman- The owner of the site tells me that all the images and music may be used for free.
• NASA Dryden Aircraft Photo Archive.
• The National Library of Australia's Documentary Images - Pictures Catalog This contains more than 13,000 digitized images of Australian pictorial works including watercolours, paintings, drawings, prints and photographs. See also Digital Collections and Picture Australia.
• Netscape's Background Textures- With several free textures for your background and desktop.
• North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium - "The Amazing Picture Machine" - offering free images to educators.
• Open Clip Art Library The images there are vector clipart (so they scale well to different sizes -- but bitmap thumbnails are also provided in PNG format. This resource is growing - submit your own clip art for sharing.
• Open Directory- A large collection of clip art links.
• PhotoGraphic Libraries The stock images, film and photo archives listed provide a creative source for television producers, advertising agencies, libraries, education centres, picture researchers and Photojournalist researching visual communications --contains national and private photographic collections.
• Photo SeeSee- A site with images of China. Unfortunately this site is no longer free.
• Photos 8- With many public domain photos
• Pics4Learning - offering free images for educators.
• Pixelatestudio.com Photographs from Holland and Belgium. Landscapes, animals, nature and more. Teachers may use images for educational purposes. No commercial use permitted. Site is by Hans Jasperse.
• Public Domain Image- A categorized site full of free images in the public domain..
• Public Domain Images, a large collection of free and inexpensive photos and images.
• Public Domain Images- IAD's link page for sources ranging from American history - to nature and more. Not all sources in public domain.
• QBullets- Icons, a site with many small icons for use on a web page.
• Reusable Art- A collection of art that have expired copyrights and are now in the public domain. A good place to find old images.
• Teacher Files Clip Art- with free educational clip art.
• Timo's Christian Clipart Site, with a lot of Christian-related clip art.
• Training Reference - Free Photos galleries contain original, royalty free pictures and photos for use in training materials, presentations and websites. Many images from nature. Site by Steven Haines.
• U.S. History Images- A large collection of images relating to U.S. history by Karen Whimsy.
• Vintage Valentine Art with free art and art for sale.
• Web Clip Art, a site by About.com.
• Web page clip art - Try any of these sources (from Google Search)
• WiseGorilla Free Educational Clip Art - features free educational clip art and links to other quality educational clip art sites.
• World Clip Art- A collection by illustrators around the world
• WP Clipart - at present there are a little over 7,500 images. All public domain. All sized and adjusted to use easily in word processors. Site is by Paul Sherman.
• Zorger.com- with many images in the public domain.

Copyright Law and the Artist

What images can I use for free from the internet? Copyright issues are becoming an important aspect of students' and educators' work on the internet. Read about some copyright myths, and licensing still images. You can read about copyright law and the internet, and you must see The Copyright Website. The latest copyright news and legislation can be found at the Creative Incentive Coalition. Educators have some additional rights to copyrights. You may visit Copyright and the Visual Arts for questions and counsel.

If you're not sure about the status of a copyright, you can enter the title and/or author of the work at the U.S. Copyright Office. See the Art Teachers Guide to Copyright for more information.

Quick Reference- Public Domain Criteria

Date of Work	Protected	Term
Created 1/1/78 or after	When work is fixed in tangible medium of expression	Life + 70 years (or if work of corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation
Published before 1923	In public domain	None
Published from 1923 - 1963	When published with notice	28 years + could be renewed for 47 years, now extended by 20 years for a total renewal of 67 years. If not so renewed, now in public domain
Published from 1964 - 1977	When published with notice	28 years for first term; now  automatic extension of 67 years for second term
Created before 1/1/78 but not published	1/1/78, the effective date of the 1976 Act which  eliminated common law copyright	Life + 70 years or 12/31/2002, whichever is greater
Created before 1/1/78 but published between then and 12-31-2002	1/1/78, the effective date of the 1976 Act which  eliminated common law copyright	Life + 70 years or 12/31/2047 whichever is greater

Links

• Benedict O'Mahoney's Copyright Web site- Includes examples of court cases involving copyright infringement.
• University of Texas' Crash Course in copyright
• The Copyright Site
• Copyright Kids
• Copyright with Cyberbee