OER for Education

The University of Michigan Library provides access to this collection for educational and research purposes. Allan T. Kohl, the creator of this collection, has dedicated any copyright he might hold in the collection to the public domain, via the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. While the images in this collection are believed to be of public domain works, there is a remote possibility that secondary works still in copyright may have been incidentally documented as well. If you decide to use any of this collection, you are responsible for making your own legal assessment and securing any necessary permission. If you have questions about the collection, please contact Digital Content & Collections. If you have concerns about the inclusion of an item in this collection, please contact Library Information Technology.

The copyright status of items in DPLA varies. DPLA links to a wide variety of different materials: many are in the public domain, while others are under rights restrictions but nonetheless publicly viewable. For individual rights information about an item, please check the “Rights” field in the metadata, or follow the link to the digital object on the content provider’s website for more information.

The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.

Use Open Stock

With the launch of NGA Images, the National Gallery of Art implemented an open access policy for digital images of works of art that the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available free of charge for any use, commercial or non-commercial, under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Users do not need to contact the National Gallery for authorization to use these images.

Free images. Images explicitly placed in the public domain. You can use all images from this gallery for whatever you want, use it freely for personal and commercial use.

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