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Looks like the New York Public Library has but more than a quarter million images online in the public domain!
Happy salvaging, Magnus
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/03/04/1258219.shtml?tid=146&tid=126
Magnus Manske schrieb:
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Looks like the New York Public Library has but more than a quarter million images online in the public domain!
I read on that page "free for personal use".
I wonder if there is a more detailed explanation about the licensing of their content...
Mathias
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Mathias Schindler schrieb:
Magnus Manske schrieb:
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Looks like the New York Public Library has but more than a quarter million images online in the public domain!
I read on that page "free for personal use".
I wonder if there is a more detailed explanation about the licensing of their content...
I got the PD information from the /. comment. Don't tell me you actually read TFA?? ;-)
Anyway, the older images will be PD by age anyway. Maybe they could be convinced to release low-quality versions of the other images as GFDL or CC-BY-SA or something, if someone from the Foundation writes a nice letter. The additional publicity for supporting everyone's favourite encyclopedia should be of high interest to them.
Magnus
There's a discussion on Wikinews with regard to whether or not the NYPL actually has the right to put restrictions on PD images: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Talk: New_York_Public_Library_opens_collection_of_275%2C000_digital_images
I've emailed the Electronic Frontier Foundation to see what their opinion is.
Christiaan
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