Can I use images from Wikimedia Commons?
Free to use All media files on Wikimedia Commons can be used by anyone, including commercially and each media file has information about which license it uses. The most common licenses used are created by Creative Commons which require the author to be credited.
Are Da Vinci drawings copyrighted?
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is in the public domain. Public domain paintings are painted works of art that are no longer, or never were, under protection by copyright laws and are therefore not owned under intellectual property laws.
Is the Mona Lisa image public domain?
For example, the Mona Lisa is in the public domain because Leonardo da Vinci died more than 70 years ago, but you can also find photographs of the Mona Lisa that are free to use here.
Are Wikimedia Commons images free?
Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content, that is, images and other media files that are not subject to copyright restrictions which would prevent them being used by anyone, anytime, for any purpose.
Is painting the Mona Lisa illegal?
Yes. All the works of Da Vinci are out of copyright worldwide. You can put a drawing of Da Vinci on a photo, on a t-shirt, in a book, on a mug and on paper. If you do this in a creative way you have created a new work of art in copyright (your copyright).
Is it illegal to print the Mona Lisa?
Is the Mona Lisa still copyrighted?
The Mona Lisa is in the public domain because there never was a copyright on it in the first place. For a painting done in 1910, which was probably copyrighted at the time, the copyright has expired. In the U.S a copyright is good for seventy years after the death of the artist.
Who owns rights to the Mona Lisa?
The Mona Lisa – by Leonardo Da Vinci. Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. This painting is painted as oil on wood. The original painting size is 77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in) and is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France.
Is Starry Night copyrighted?
Case in point, Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” is in the public domain. The original painting is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Go to the MoMA website and look up “Starry Night” and you’ll see information on how to license MoMA’s photograph of it.