Conservative. Idaho. Software engineer. Historian. Trying to prevent Idiocracy from becoming a documentary.
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"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." -- Rom. 8:28
Interesting that even the picture listed in the Library of Congress may not be public domain. Even more interesting that the image is described, but has not been digitized so it can't even be seen.
Pretty much any work (other than sound recordings) created and published in the U.S. before 1923 is in the public domain in the U.S. It's a little more complicated for rights abroad, but something from 1865 is highly unlikely to be still under copyright anywhere in the world.
Much more discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain which takes such things seriously and in bloody-minded detail.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harriet_Tubman_Civil_War_Woodcut.jpg
ReplyDeleteInteresting that even the picture listed in the Library of Congress may not be public domain. Even more interesting that the image is described, but has not been digitized so it can't even be seen.
ReplyDeletePretty much any work (other than sound recordings) created and published in the U.S. before 1923 is in the public domain in the U.S. It's a little more complicated for rights abroad, but something from 1865 is highly unlikely to be still under copyright anywhere in the world.
ReplyDeleteMuch more discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain which takes such things seriously and in bloody-minded detail.