Thanks for the links. The government images is an interesting angle. I’ve known entrepreneurs in the past who created entire businesses out of reprinting works originally published by the US Government Printing Office. No authors to deal with, no royalties to pay. Not that many people know that virtually all of the government publications are in the public domain. Thanks for the links to the image sites, I’ll use these.

As a sort of footnote, and I’m sure you must have covered this elsewhere (I didn’t look …sorry), I get quite a number of people copying my work (written). I always email and complain, 99% apologize and remove the article. However, all I really want them to do is attribute the work to me and give me a link but, they don’t seem to want to do that? Odd! Anyway, the last plagiarist replied, “It’s good information, but also extremely generic” – Well it wasn’t when I wrote it, I said! And I think that’s the problem with images, do a search for some images and you get the same one served up manyfold, so it’s hard to resist saying, “it’s extremely generic, no-one will care”.

O.K. now I’m off to join BloggerLinkUp – cheers.

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