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title: "HUGE NEWS – Smithsonian Images Copyright Free"
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# HUGE NEWS – Smithsonian Images Copyright Free

![Image](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/776e9f93cb72a6ef49cc303f0f3a5843419a07f0043cb23d64f49db44c56aeba?s=48&r=g)

Seth Goldstein

·

January 21, 2023

Sol 2974

![A lion cub resting with its forelegs on a ledge, looking directly at the camera with wide eyes.](https://sethgoldstein.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/lion-cub-smithsonian-os-0cc.webp)

The Smithsonian Institution here in the United States just released more than [4 million images into the public domain](https://www.si.edu/openaccess)
.

This is huge and a major win for the internet and fair use. This follows the [WordPress Foundation’s public domain photo project “Openverse”](https://wordpress.org/openverse/)
 that came to life last year.

I’m loving this. Go check out the awesome images that are free to use!!!!!!!!!

[images](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/images/)
, [no copyright](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/no-copyright/)
, [public domain](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/public-domain/)
, [smithsonian](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/smithsonian/)