1. What did you gain from this project?
Several things, one a familiarity with copyright law and some tricks for working within its bounds. Often times in personal projects I simply ignore it, and as I'm a private user with no real potential for capital gain I get ignored. It was an interesting challenge to work within and have to understand the rules of legitimate image rights and collection. Additionally this project taught me how helpful librarians can be. Sending out information requests and hearing back, especially from folks half way around the world, is helpful and kind of fun.
2. What is the point of this project: knowing about digital archives; searching for Public Domain material.
There are two major points for this project. First to ensure that we are capable of doing this kind of research, finding photos, understanding their copyright situation, and reporting it. And second being able to put that understanding to use so that we might make informed commentary about the copyright and fair use debate going on all around us.
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