Wikipedia talk:Public domain image resources

message: In the General Collections section:
Google images hosts a large repository of LIFE images, Time claims blanket copyright to everything but this is simply bullshit.
The last part certainly doesn't belong. I'll change it. --Crackthewhip775 (talk) 07:05, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible vandalism? 

message: How do you know if it's okay to use an image. There are many articles I would like to add images to and it's so easy to find a multitude of very good images; presumably some must be okay to use? How do you find out. Daniel Christensen (talk) 19:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In general if there is no statement that you can use an image you may not. Copyrights can apply even when there is no copyright notice . --BozMo talk 15:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Back on February 27 I answered this question and more for you in some detail. Unless an image specifically says it is in the public domain or has some other free licence, then you MUST assume it is copyright and you can't use it here. I would suggest that you stop forum shopping for the reply you want to hear, i.e., that you can use copyright images. The answer is that you can't. ww2censor (talk) 16:05, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: How do you know

message: Here's an extensive collection of what would seem to be out-of-copyright lantern slides. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:35, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lantern slide collection 

message: How is this website a resource for PD images? The website seems to be only about selling its services; i don't see any 'archive' or anything like that. Maybe this link ought to be removed?--Breandán MacAmhlaidh (talk) 09:10, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Removed. ww2censor (talk) 13:24, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  bookscanning.com 

message: It seems that, according to the terms of use of the websites 4FreePhotos and 4 Free Textures — here is an excerpt:
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anyone who downloads anything from them is prohibited from uploading it to Wikimedia Commons.
--AVRS (talk) 21:42, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  4free… 

message: Like this one? Of course, I can download/upload it, with credits, but I guess a good idea would be to preserve file history, right? Lotygolas Ozols (talk) 19:33, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: found it myself: Wikipedia:Moving files to the Commons. Lotygolas Ozols (talk) 20:32, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to automatically transfer fee images from wikipedia into commons? 

message: The Art Renewal Project is listed under art as a source of copyright free material. There are two things wrong with this. First, the page it links to no longer exists. The second, and much more important, is that the Art Renewal Project is not a collection of classical art, is is a site that represents Classical Art Ateliers, training students in the style of the old masters, and all the art represented on the website is done by contemporary artists. I represent one such school. They are most certainly not copyright free.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stingwriter (talk • contribs) 23:09, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Art Renewal Needs to be Removed 

message: USCITES.gov is listed but the site asks for authorisation, thus:
  A username and password are being requested by http://uscites.gov. The site says: "hugo".
Dbagnall (talk) 12:48, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  USCITES 

message: Does anyone know whether all the images in the Open-i database are public domain? In particular, this image says "PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL FETTERS FOR HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE". Does that limit its use in any way? RockMagnetist (talk) 19:58, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Open-i 

message: Just removed a bunch of dead weight. Dead links were obvious. Sites where it said public domain but the terms say something else were obvious. Where I think it still needs more work is on the sites which keep getting added which are clearly just set up for ad revenue: a handful of images in a little frame dwarfed by ads on all sides, ads that look like more photos linking to paid stock photo sites, people's vacation galleries... In other words this page has turned into a web directory. Please use the talk page before adding back anything I removed. Much more work to be done to this resource... --Rhododendrites (talk) 04:44, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pruning 

message: In the time I've watched this page the majority of edits seem to be either adding or removing sites with commercial content, very little content, ambiguous licensing, rampant advertising, membership fees, etc. What is the inclusion criteria? Can I start a Tumblr, upload a picture I took, declare it public domain, and link to it here? --— Rhododendrites talk |  21:05, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  inclusion criteria 

message: Why is this page here, if it is just a copy of the meta page?  Why should anyone ever have to make the same changes to two different pages?  Wouldn't it be better to just provide a link or a (soft) redirect?  I'd also note that it's very confusing:  the meta page has a notice that it is "kept for historical interest", which implies to me that I shouldn't edit it.  
Actually, can we replace both this and the meta page with soft redirects to Commons:Free_media_resources/Photography? Klortho (talk) 05:51, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we replace this with a link to the Wikimedia Commons page? 

message: The website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ https://www.artuk.org aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings. A project is in progress to tag all paintings on the site. Can museums and other contributors claim copyright on images reproduced here? If not, at least in the case of older paintings it would make a useful resource at Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources#Art, especially if some caveat was included in the link explaining what is and is not covered by copyright.Waugh Bacon (talk) 04:55, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: What is the status of paintings reproduced at BBC Your Paintings?

message: Just a heads up that I've started a thread at the Wikimedia Commons Village Pump which concerns this page: :commons:Commons:Village pump#cleaning up, creating link inclusion criteria, and consolidating Free Media Resources. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 20:33, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commons discussion about what to do with this page and its counterparts at Commons and Meta 

message: i think this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources and this article https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources/Photography
should mergeJonnymoon96 (talk) 21:35, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  merging 

message: Looking at this page, much of it seems to be a list of external links embedded into the page. My understanding is that this is not something generally considered acceptable for articles per :WP:CS#Avoid embedded links or :WP:EL. I am just curious as if this of thing is considered OK for pages in the  "Wikipedia" namespace. I'm not proposing a massive removal of links. Just curious. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:28, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Embedded links 

message: Does the Free Image Search Tool still exist? I'm getting a 502 Bad Gateway message when I follow the link:
* FIST – Free Image Search Tool
Thanks for considering my question!
Jscarboro (talk) 16:52, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I did some looking around and found the new link. I just updated this project page with it. — Tartan357  (Talk) 03:56, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

text: Brilliant! Can the templates "howtoreqphoto" and "howtoreqphotoin" be amended to reflect this change? Liverpoolpics (talk) 12:40, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  so please what is the new link? This page  is still outdated. ww2censor (talk) 15:00, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Think I've fixed the templates I mentioned above Liverpoolpics (talk) 20:02, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not for me, so I don't know what you fixed. Neither https://fist.toolforge.org/fist.php nor https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FIST work. ww2censor (talk) 22:12, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free Image Search Tool?