FREE and LEGAL BOOKS (Including ILLUSTRATIONS) - DOWNLOAD FREE BOOKS for Commercial Use

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Finding free and legal images to use for your graphic design project can be frustrating - sometimes you find a great picture or illustration but you don't know if you have the rights to use it. Here I cover a site called Project Gutenberg: Free eBooks. Project Gutenberg is a site that contains over 60,000 completely free and legal books. Many of these books contain pictures. These books are great for grabbing vintage illustrations, or also just reading the book! There are great public domain books like Pride & Prejudice, Dracula and A Tale of Two Cities.
"Public Domain" means that there are no known copyright restrictions on the work. This means that you are free to download, use, remix, edit and sell these images as part of your artwork or creative project.
Links:
www.gutenberg.org/
Timestamps:
00:00 Introductions
01:01 Overview
02:09 Looking at a Book
03:08 Book Formats
05:40 Legal Rights
07:50 Second Example

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16 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 39

@ezamyazny5877 Год назад

I love it when you shared hidden gems that not everybody knew about. Thanks

@pastexpiry2013B 2 года назад

I remember in the mid 90s, the prehistoric era of the internet, that Project Gutenberg was one of the few big but useful websites out there.

@larisasarapulova1327 2 года назад

I can't believe you share all these amazing resources with us for free! Thanks heaps!

@hansbonnevier5022 3 года назад

Thank you very much Zen! I am also looking for vintage that I like very much.

@hka1625 3 года назад

amazing work, thank you very much

@loitly7201 2 года назад

You have great and very useful ideas. You always come up with something new. you are creative Thank you so much👍

@belindaann458 2 года назад

I learn something new from each of your videos!

@nasimhayati6166 2 года назад

Thanks for this good info. As always great

@jenniferlambert3886 2 года назад

Thanks so much! You save me so much time!

@colemyst 2 года назад

Thank you again for helping all of us.

@mohamedelamineamine8 3 года назад

Nice, you offering helpful sites I use some photos and make it illustration with solid color the result is cool, thanks

@eyecandy5984 Год назад

Thank you for this informative video! Zen,do check out Argentine Ornithology Vol 1 and 2 - fabulous bird illustrations

@blackkitt98 3 года назад

Great ideas! What's weird for me is the same bookshelf shows different numbers than yours. Ex Children's Picture Books says 38280. In fact all the categories have lower numbers than what's on your screen. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@eyecandy5984 Год назад

And you can enlarge really hi res images when you browse through the HTML version 👇

@gggg-vg4vj 2 года назад

3:05 you stopped short of showing how to convert html to pdf book, i wish you showed. i know there is lots of converters but they dont do job, eg formatting, watermark, no pics etc. & some say i am in germany & cannot convert , but i am not in germany. which free program will convert with one click, or how else can it be ebbok pdf.

@shoiku4734 Год назад

All the art prints showed in your videos show that vintage illustrators/painters were better at their craft than recent artists. Big difference in style, in perception of subject matter, in execution of their work, the look, everything. We have lost a great deal of talent.

@miraymichael5341 2 года назад

I have a question pls, how do we download the images to use them, or do we just save them (right click+ save pic as). Also, I really appreciate what you are doing you are amazing.

@craftystax 2 года назад

Yes I just right click and save the images. Some of them might need to be cleaned up (like remove backgrounds or imperfections, or run through Inkscape to make clean vectors). Thank you for the kind words, it is much appreciated!

@jhilikmukherjee2954 2 года назад

Awesome video....can I use these public domain children's books to sell on Kindle?

@craftystax 2 года назад

Well sort of. Amazon states that they don't allow public domain books to be sold directly on Amazon. But you could use the designs and/or the book's words to create a new piece of art, and that you could sell on Amazon.

@jhilikmukherjee2954 2 года назад

@@craftystax thank you❤️

@digital_charm Год назад

Hi CS, are these Public Domain in UK?

@craftystax Год назад

It's a good question and it becomes even more fuzzy because online vendors are pretty much global. So I would say that generally speaking, if you are selling something online, as long as you can point to a U.S. public domain, you are generally OK. (And yes some people are going to not agree but my point is there is no one legislative body on this stuff). It has been my experience that if you can point to U.S. public domain, generally any third-party seller site will be OK with it.

@bachelorliving123 3 года назад

If they're online books, the images would be low-res, wouldn't they?

@Joha_26 3 года назад

You can use inkscape to scale them may be?

@craftystax 3 года назад

Yes exactly - if they are black and white, they are pretty easy to scale up using Inkscape

@oldproji 2 года назад

The problem is Guttenberg only gives US public domain. How do I find out if public domain is world wide?

@craftystax 2 года назад

In the US, any work published before January 1, 1926, anywhere in the world is in the public domain.

@merchunscripted4459 3 года назад

the gutenberg website is blocked for IPs from germany :-(

@mojado44 2 года назад

Get a VPN and change the country.

@e-man5055 2 года назад

can you download these to ios ipad?

@craftystax 2 года назад

They are just pictures, so however you save pictures to the iPad, that would be available. There are some great pictures!

@e-man5055 2 года назад

does this have picture books?

@craftystax 2 года назад

Yes there are lots of books in there and many have pictures!

@jamiesehancy4360 3 года назад

Zen, I'm worried that this may be too good to be true. I'm not convinced that we can use these illustrations for commercial use. I've read through the Project Gutenberg license at the end of Hound of the Baskervilles and Huckleberry Finn, and they both seem to be identical. After reading all that legalese in there (which I would equate to "fine print"), I'm not convinced that I can slap one of those illustrations onto a T-shirt and sell it on Spring or Redbubble or whatever. Are you sure you're reading the fine print?

@craftystax 3 года назад

Hey there - these are public domain images. The copyright has expired on them. It doesn't matter what the book itself says (because it was written when it first came out). Sherlock Holmes (for example) is absolutely public domain: www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-sherlock-holmes-public-domain-20140805-story.html

@jamiesehancy4360 3 года назад

@@craftystax So, it's not too good to be true after all! Thanks so much, Zen. Oh, I guess I should call you "Crafty" here. I love all of your Zen Watercooler and Crafty Stax videos. Such great ideas! Take care...

@craftystax 3 года назад

Hey Jamiese, Zen is fine! ;) Stax is the wife of Zen, we run this channel together. - Stax

@gggg-vg4vj 2 года назад

guttenberg says plr but also says to pay them 20% if used commercially? can you clarify ?