Take This, It’s Free: Public Domain Clearance Project at Texas A&M University-Commerce Libraries
Abstract
Copyright law in the United States is notoriously complex. To aid researchers at the Texas A&M University–Commerce Libraries in discerning copyright status more clearly, archivist Michael Barera and digital collections librarian Adam Northam developed a project in 2016 to identify images that have entered the public domain from our Historic East Texas Collection, which documents university history.