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bentleytoday at 3:30 AM1 replyview on HN

Standard Ebooks has a database of public domain oil paintings for use as book covers. SE is strict about copyright clearance and requires either scans of a copyright‐expired publication containing the painting, or an explicit statement from a reputable museum that the work is CC0. Here’s an entry I contributed:

https://standardebooks.org/artworks/arthur-i-keller/calvin-c...


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robin_realatoday at 5:55 AM

To be specific, this is US public domain only (which is globally non-standard).