Corbis will cheerfully charge you up the wazoo for public domain images – Boing Boing

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Corbis will cheerfully charge you up the wazoo for public domain images

The point of the public domain is that anyone can do anything with it, including sell it, so in a way, it makes sense that the Corbis image-library is full of high-priced Library of Congress images…

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/06/18/corbis-will-cheerfully-charge.html

But it’s also unquestionably a ripoff to sell people things for $1,735 (the price for getting a Corbis license to a public domain LoC image in TV and online) and not bothering to mention that you can get exactly the same image, absolutely free, from the Library of Congress itself.