British Library Releases 1M Images into the Public Domain

Earlier this month, Open Culture pointed to a big move from the British Library: the library is putting a million images into the public domain. Accessible on the library’s sprawling Flickr account, these images’s copyright statuses are marked as “ < a href=”http://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/”>no known copyright restrictions.”

…A quick glance at Flickr’s Commons listingsshows that the British Library joins other institutions like the Vancouver Public Library Historical Photographs, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the Brooklyn Museum, the Library of Congress, and many more in offering their holdings to the public this way. [read entire article]