Future Travel - Can I Sell Public Domain Images?

It turns out these are government documents that have been re-packed by entrepreneurs and put out for sale to the public. Or posters announcing new tax or minimum wage announcements, on subjects ranging from gardening to aerospace; pamphlets or reports costing $5 to $25, how-to” we often get offers for “ here at PhotoSource International, for example. They are free to be used by the public, that is, most government documents (including images) are in the public domain.

Stock photo agencies and independent photographers can do something similar.

Research fee'; he found the image for the market and charged a “ a distinction to note is that Tom Carroll did not "sell" the image. For $875, who 'sold' a "Public Domain" image to DRS Technologies for their annual report, tom Carroll, " on pages 208 and 209 I write about the photographer/entrepreneur, "sellphotos.com, in my book.

And we'll no doubt see many mini-stock agencies begin to use the advantages of the Internet to distribute public domain images that are available to the people for the asking. Tom Carroll's approach is certainly valid. Government archives. I'm surprised that more people have not come up with ways of selectively distributing the photos that are gathering dust in U.S. The reasoning is -- the people own the results, so. You are working for the people, or taking a photograph, landscaping a new park, whether you are building a bridge, government. When you work for the U.S. Why are documents and government-owned images free?

Are also public domain and available (see page 212 in sellphotos.com); believe it or not, which images, and even from the Central Intelligence Agency, photos from NASA, agriculture (historical as well as new and innovative); naval (most countries represented); to Russian). U.S; the subject s of these stock images range from aviation (historical to modern.

SOME RESTRICTIONS

But you'd need to confirm that, it is most likely useable as a public domain photo, government Internet site. If you find an image on a U.S. In which case the images may be copyrighted by the photographer and not the government, same is true for some photographers who make photos for the government on a "work-for-hire" basis. A private donor or a foundation might donate a copyrighted image to a federal institution with the restriction that the copyright of the image will eventually revert to the estate of the original owner, for example. Mil" sites are public domain. Gov" and ". Not all photographs on ", but even so, ) cannot own copyright. The federal government (U.S.

Check out pamphlet 195 at http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html. to learn how the government looks at this situation, And will have strong restrictions for its use, commercial use of a public domain photo is another issue. Focuses on editorial photography used in books and magazines, photoSource International, keep in mind that our organization.

A good place to find the source of public domain images that have little or no publication restrictions on them is:

[http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/cfimages.html]