[Courses] [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the GIMP

[Mary]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Other possibilities are government sites: national park services have
> lots of pretty scenic photos, fish & game departments have animal
> photos, and space agencies like NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope
> have photos of planets and astronomical objects.  Most of these are
> public domain, so you can use them to make images and not have to
> worry about copyright restrictions.

Just note that this is only really true for US government sites: other
governments do not have usually let or require that their employees
release things into the public domain like the US government does. For
example, the Australian government websites will normally keep copyright
and all associated rights on their images.

-Mary