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Public Domain Art, Books, Images, and Links

• A. Antonov Art, with many images of oil paintings for private use.
• 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.
• Brad's Favorite: Clip Art Connection
• 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 ETC- Free clipart from the online service of Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse.
• Clip Art Gallery- a selection of clip art by Discovery Education.
• Copyright Free Photos - copyright free photo library for any use.
• Curriculum Specific Clip Art - Graphic Web Design Sites - Clip Art Collections compiled by Grosse Pointe Public School System - Michigan. Not all art on their site is clips art....and not all links I checked go to clip art sites.
• DanceArt.Com, with ballet and dance art. There is some FREE clip art on the site.
• 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
• 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 and clip art.
• ESL / EFL Clip Art- For those who are dealing with students whose native language isn't English.
• Fiona's Shark Mania, a site with shark clip art, graphics, and stories.
• Free Christmas Clipart.
• Freefoto - offering free images to educators
• FreePhotos.se - all public domain photographs.  A collection of nature, animals, buildings, flowers, winter scenes and more. This site is by Magnus Rosendahl, Sweden.
• Geek Philosopher- Barbara Hocking - Public Domain Photographs. Food, nature, people, animals and more - See more links to images at bottom of page.
• Google Books- A huge selection of free online books that are searchable.
• 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).
• Internet Text Archives- A huge database of free books that can be downloaded for free.
• The Jolly Roger GIF animation Gallery, where you are free to pirate any image.
• 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 manuscripts in the public domain.
• 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.
• Media Link's Free Graphics with over 375 free graphics, and animation.
• 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.
• Music Roman- The owner of the site says 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.
• North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium - "The Amazing Picture Machine" - offering free images to educators.
• Online Books Page, with a list of many online books in the public domain.
• 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.
• Page By Page Books- with books in HTML format.
• 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.
• 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.
• Project Gutenberg- A huge collection of books that have expired copyrights.
• Public Domain Images, a large collection of free and inexpensive photos and images.
• Public Domain Images- a links 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.
• Read Print- with a free online library.
• 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.
• Vintage Valentine Art with free art and art for sale.
• Web Clip Art, a site by the Mining Company.
• 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