'The Factbook is in the public domain. Accordingly, it may be copied
freely without permission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).' -
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/contributor_copyright.html

So I have a FREE source for countries flags and maps and content.

Which other websites (quality websites as CIA.gov) are of the public
domain et cetera where I can copy from there and paste to my website
images and content?

Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by journalist-ga on 18 Jun 2003 06:44 PDT

Are country flags and maps the only images for which you are searching?

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Clarification of Question by courious-ga on 18 Jun 2003 06:48 PDT

I am NOT searching for maps and flags - I have it already on CIA.gov.

FREE newsworthy pictures from around the world would be perfect, any
good source for FREE content and especially pictures is what I'm
looking for, for my news website.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 18 Jun 2003 07:01 PDT

All the federal government sites listed here are public domain, with
newsworthy images for the taking:


http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/call/pressreleases.htm

Dear courious, 

Thank you for your question. There are numerous institution, most of
them public, that made their images a public domain.

A large list of publicly available pictures, directed at teaching,
could be found at Springfield Township High School Library site,
http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/cfimages.html. They direct you
to the proper usage of images, and the need to credit them also when
they are copyright free at http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/guidelines.html.

Princeton Online also has such a list, at
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/clipart.html, although
they admit that some of the links might be broken. Their list contains
mostly fine art pieces.

Slippery Rock University's Website stipulates, that "The U.S.
Copyright Office's circular entitled Copyright Basics and particularly
the section on How long copyright protection endures, explain why
these images came to belong to the public. In a nutshell, works
published prior to 1978 were protected for a maximum of 75 years. See
"sources", below for more information on these particular images."
(Source "Images in Public Domain"
http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey/public/public_domain.htm).
This site also contains many public domain images to be used, ordered
by categories (2 of machinery, and 4 of animals).

Wickipedia has another such list, sorted alphabetically by categories
at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources

Pictures depicting space and nature sceneries, from NASA, NOAA and FWS
could be found at Gimp-Savvy photo archive
<http://gimp-savvy.com/index.html>. Please read their note on the
proper usage of these images at
<http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/index.html>. The FWS (Fish and
Wildlife Service) public domain images could be also found at
http://images.fws.gov/.

Last but not least, for me, the coolest site was The College of New
Jersey's "Images of American Political History"
<http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/>, with many famous pictures
such as Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin 
(http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail394.html), Nixon
Leaving the White House
(http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail483.html), andMap of
Mannados or Manhattan in 1661,
(http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail6.html)

This disccussions might also interest you: 
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22public+domain%22+images&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=Xns932AEDA3DC17D42tatltuae%40130.133.1.4&rnum=6


I hope this answered your question. My search was very fruitful and
yielded many more sites - you could see them all by cliking on my
search terms here: ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22public+domain%22+images
. If you need any clarification on this answer, please let me know.
I'd be pleased to clarify my answer before you rate it.