IMOLIO Royalty Free Digital Art Images and Print Portfolio

ROYALTY FREE Digital Image Portfolio

ROYALTY FREE and COPYRIGHT FREE

All of the art images available for sale on this website are in the Public Domain. They are being sold free of any managed rights, restrictions of use or copyright. You may use these images personally or commercially. This means any images you purchase here can be used for any purpose. You can publish them in your book, use them to decorate your website, publish them in your newspaper, make prints and sell them in your store or on the web, make calendars, coffee cups, playing cards and any other possible use you can think off. Imolio make no license, rights management or restriction on the use of its images after you purchase them. Many people are concerned about copyrights. Copyrights are explained in detail at www.copyright.gov.

But to give a brief overview I will try to explain how it works. First, I am not an Attorney and this is not offered as Legal Advice. It is simply a summary of what can be found in the Copyright Circulars. First, all artistic works made after January 1, 1978 are currently protected by copyright. Any artistic works made before January 1, 1978 carried a 28 year Copyright Term with or without filing their work with the Copyright Office. The 28 year copyright term could be extended for an additional 65 years. However, for an artist to extend the copyright on a work past the 28 years he/she initially had to pay a fee and file a Certificate of Copyright with the Copyright Office, then in the 27^th year after filing the Certificate a Copyright the Artist had to pay a renewal fee and file a Renewal of Copyright. All of these filings can be looked up at http://www.copyright.gov/records/. That process properly followed granted the Artist a total of 95 years copyright protection. In my experience I have found that over 99% of the works or art I have researched that were created before 1978 never had a Certificate of Copyright filed for them. Most Artists’ simply relied on the 28 year copyright term granted to them at no cost. To summarize this, any work made before 1902 is in the public domain because 95 years is the longest possible term any copyrighted and renewed work could have been protected. And any work made before 1978 that did not have a Certificate of Copyright filed for it is in the Public Domain. Most all Digital Images sold by Imolio were made before 1902. We do sell some Images made between 1902 and 1978 and we have researched them to make sure they are in the Public Domain and free of Copyright Protection.

I have found that many Museums and Photographer’s that rely on income received from photographic reproductions of art try to imply to the public that the Photographs/Digital Images they recently have made are protected by copyright. However, a recent court ruling Bridgeman Art Library v. Core Corp. 1999 United States District Court of the Southern District of New York has set the precedent that exact photographic reproductions of public domain images could not be protected by copyright. Which means any digital images of public domain art is free of any copyright protection.

If you have any questions you can reach us at sales@imolio.com.