You paid for them. They are yours. I'm talking about the many government photos that are in the Public Domain and are housed at the Library of Congress, NASA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, military agencies, and other federal and state governmental archives of Public Domain photos. These photos were paid for or acquired by tax dollars and they are for use by the general public as well as the government. Trouble is, these photo collections are not widely publicized, so the general public doesn't know how to access them. You can access them and include them in your stock collection or use them to answer photo requests from photobuyers. Last month here at PhotoSource International we published two requests of this type. One was for an aircraft carrier and another for a Russian MIG. |
