Public Domain

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As I search through the few sites I can afford (Deviant Art is great!), I continue to be amazed at the general lack of knowledge regarding copyright.  Flickr is the worst in this regard, DA seems to be the best.

When something is in the public domain, it means either that the copyright has expired (for example, the author has died more than 70 years ago) or that the creator has surrendered his rights and allowed the general public to do what they want with his/her image.  I am still alive, but I have essentially put my image of the glass ceiling into the public domain.  Merely posting something to DA does not put it into the public domain.

It is not uncommon for me to find someone posting a great pic as being in the public domain when all they've done is downloaded it from another website.  Thus the original creator has not signed off any rights at all...

Cautionary tales.

Jason
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