Library of Congress - Photos from 1939-1945
I’ve been browsing the photo collections in the Library of Congress. One of their latest collections is photographs of ‘America from the Great Depression to World War II’. Unlike in the UK, which has Crown Copyright, works by the United States Goverment do not have copyright. No copyright permission is needed to use the photos in this collection, as the photographers were in the employ of the US Government. Publicity and privacy rights, however, could apply. As a practical matter, in the US any of these that do not feature any people, and those where the people in the picture are not identifiable (generally, can’t see their face), can be reproduced freely. Below are a few I thought interesting.
Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI
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February 12th, 2007 at 7:12 am
[...] This post over at House of Commons caught my eye because of its use of an image that appears to be something one would expect to be in the public domain, but is licensed under a Creative Commons licence. It is just the type of image that one can find in the US Library of Congress archives or on a museum site — an old advertisement poster from what looks like the early 1900’s or late 1800’s. The original of these images would be firmly in the public domain if it is an advertisement from this timeframe (in the US anyway). For more, see my earlier post on some pictures from the LOC that I found interesting. [...]