$43 Smithsonian image book online
p2pnet.net news:- On Tuesday p2pnet ran a story pointing out that Public.Resource.Org (PRG), a new non-profit group dedicated to creating online public works projects, had made the entire collection of Smithsonian Institution images available online on Flickr – for free.
If the Smithsonian is America’s attic, its photos are the country’s “collective scrapbook,” says the new group. And with that in mind, it posted all 6,288 images “of national significance”.
They’d hitherto been available only from the Smithsonian, and then only for a price.
Now Masha tells p2pnet Carl Malamud’s Public Domain Prospectus, a “catalog of 6,288 images that originated at smithsonianimages.si.edu,” is also available on LuLu, “for people researching the public domain status of these images”.
Normally costing $43 it, too, is free.
“We assert no copyright in the collection and believe the individual images to be predominantly public domain,” says the post on Lulu.
Printed: 262 pages, 8.5″ x 11″, perfect binding, full-color interior ink
Publisher: Carl Malamud
Copyright: © 2007 Public Domain Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
(Thanks, Masha)
Also See:
for free – Smithsonian pix online: all of them!, May 22, 2007
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May 24th, 2007 at 9:49 am
“Copyright: © 2007 Public Domain Standard Copyright License”
How inventive!
There is no such thing as a “public domain license”, a three word contradiction.
Rafael venegas
gvenegas.com