Good post OP

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 4.4 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

What will you create?

This is an amazing resource.

Thank you for sharing!

We need a sub where we share stuff we find

Inb4 Getty copyrights all of it.

I'm sure the Smithsonian would have stern words and lots of lawyer-speak should the Getty try to do this.

But if you use any of it on youtube you could be in for bad time.

Nope, it's all completely free to use, even for commercial use. Some few exceptions, like if the item itself is something related to a brand and is already under Copyright by someone else. But otherwise you can literally do anything you want with their assets.

https://www.si.edu/openaccess/faq

something like "/r/publicdomainhunting"

I was talking about how even if it’s free to use, if you use it on youtube you could get your channel cancelled by copyright leeches.

https://reddit.com/r/videos/comments/zeoywi/copyright_leeches_falsely_claim_twosetviolins_4m/

Exactly copyright pirates are killing youtube

This is gonna be my new favorite website after Wiki. Something to snuggle inside a warm blanket just before bedtime.

Currently, there are no backsies on the public domain. I'm sure we'll live to see eternal copyrights ex post facto as well, though.

That can happen even to things you create yourself. The days of being a small creator are nearing an end. Even if you manage to rise above the noise and get a bit of recognition, anyone, anywhere can claim you made a sound they have copyright for. They get all the money for the video you made and it's wayyyy more difficult to prove your case than it was for them to prove theirs. Google, apparently, doesn't give a shit.

this really is a hidden treasure

Do it!

They already did this with public domain works from the Library of Congress and the result of the legal case was that because the works are public domain, Getty is free to put them behind a pay wall and even potentially DMCA people for using those public domain works (in the case that the image was sourced from Getty instead of direct from the source and then shared elsewhere).

Basically Getty can bully anyone into paying them for using a public domain work and even if you fight them in court, the only recourse would be that they drop the charge (but not covering court fees).

Apparently you can copyright the work of others using this as well.

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Yeah I mean fraudulent copyright takedowns are gonna happen regardless. YouTube sucks when it comes to protecting their creators fairly.

Nice to see that you posted it!

Getty is evil. Case in point Carol Highsmith. Case was thrown out.

this is AWESOME, thank you so much! there's even some cool cats around

The MET also has Open Access artworks.

Saved! Only to forget about it later 😁

/r/birthofasub

But nothing about giant skeletons, oh no, nothing to see here.

Subbed!

r/newsubreddits

Love it

Well… Kind of. Disney has a habit of pulling inspiration from public domain, then copyrighting their new version and using it to bully anyone who tries to use the original source material. Basically every Disney princess came from a story in public domain. But if you try to sell anything related to Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, etc I can almost guarantee Disney’s army of lawyers will be on your ass. Even if what you’re selling doesn’t include Disney’s material. They’ll try to bully you with lawsuits simply for using the same source and being tangentially related as a result.