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ReadyImages: New Image Service for Corporate Presentations

Problem: corporate communications people don’t know where to get copyright-free or royalty-free images for their presentations and internal printed communications. They also don’t understand copyright rules. Solution: the venerable Copyright Clearance Center now has a pre-licensed stock photography service, named ReadyImages. For one annual fee, all the employees of a company may download any of more [...]

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Public Domain Images from the U.S. Government

Hey, you paid for them already! Get excellent images at: www.archives.gov www.digitalvaults.org www.nsf.gov/news/mmg www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix www.nasa.gov/multimedia http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/home.asp www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/multimedia.aspx www.usmint.gov/pressroom www.nps.gov/pub_aff/imagebase.html www.photolibrary.fema.gov/photolibrary www.photolib.noaa.gov www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm (Note I saw this list in FPO Magazine, a remarkable publication for magazine designers and publishers!) addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fplanetquark.com%2F2008%2F12%2F29%2Fpublic-domain-images-from-the-us-government%2F'; addthis_title = 'Public+Domain+Images+from+the+U.S.+Government'; addthis_pub = '';

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10 Million Photos from Life Magazine

Google plans to archive as many as 10 million photos from Life Magazine’s archives dating back to the 1750s ‹ many which have never been published before. The photos will be available on Google Image Search pages after being digitized for the first time from negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. Google claims that about 20% of the [...]

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