Public domain images are available to anyone and can generally be used for whatever purpose you like — even commercial use. Images may end up in the public domain for a number of reasons.

On Wednesday, the library released more than 180,000 of its public-domain items — including maps ... But in most cases, for a high-resolution image, users would have to make a request and ...

If a monkey snaps a selfie in the forest, does he own it ... then on Wikimedia Commons, which hosts images in the public domain. In early 2012, Slater officially asked Wikimedia to take down ...

The New York Public Library says it hopes this recent release of public domain images serves as a starting point for future creative reuses. Given the overwhelming number of images now available ...

As of this week, images of these artifacts, part of a trove of 2.8 million digital pictures and 3-D models, will be in the public domain for the first time under the Smithsonian's new Open Access ...