November 30th 2008

Public Domain resources

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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources)

Wikipedia provides a list of web resources that have, sometimes search-able, databases of public domain images. Many links here are broken, but some seem valuable if they suite your needs. An interesting thing to note is that any work taken by an employee of the Federal Government, while they are employed and at work, belongs to the Federal Government and in turn belongs in the public domain. Read more about it here. Uncle Sam ‘lens’ a hand.

Drug Pack ScorpionClandestine will take advantage of section 105 of the Copyright Act, in utilizing images taken by the Federal Government. Including this one:

Governments around the world broadcast encrypted messages via shortwave radio to secret agents in enemy territory. These publicly accessible yet indecipherable messages provide the framework for two stories, intertwining fact with fiction.

Clandestine documents the history of the spies caught possessing these coded messages. Juxtaposed with the stories of their capture is the fictional tale of a man’s relationship with his father, a shortwave hobbyist, and his legacy of familial secrets.

Using freely available archive material, the film seamlessly re-contextualizes ephemeral cinema into a story of espionage and adultery, communication and miscommunication, and the relativity of good and bad.

30 minutes / Black & White / USA / 2009

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