For #DigitalFriday I’d like to gather a list of royalty/fee-free image catalogues and databases - ideally thing that *can* be used commercially too - to counter the “but I have to use AI” argument. Any suggestions?
DigitaltMuseum has the digitised collections of lots of museums in Norway and Sweden. You can filter by licence when you search to see what's available for reuse in different contexts: digitaltmuseum.no
DigitaltMuseum is a common database for Norwegian and Swedish museums and collections. It provides access to more than four million photographs, objects, works of art and buildings.
British Library on Flickr has an absurd amount of beautiful drawings and paintings that are all royalty free: www.flickr.com/people/briti... Search can be a bit weak at times but just browsing it is a joy.
In the Netherlands, the Rijksmuseum has a large collection of public domain images and artworks up on their website: www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
Biodiversity Heritage Library has a Flickr account with 319,000 out of copyright images www.flickr.com/photos/biodi...
Explore Biodiversity Heritage Library’s 319,640 photos on Flickr!
Library of Congress has a huge creative commons image collection
The EUROPEANA search bar gives you access to more than 50 million images (+ films & music) in the public domain from European museums and libraries. A great aggregator! www.europeana.eu/fr
How about Openverse? “Openverse allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. > 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. We aggregate works from multiple public repositories” openverse.org
Search over 800 million free and openly licensed images, photos, audio, and other media types for reuse and remixing.