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Fine-Art Religious Images—License & Royalty Free
Images on this website have expired copyrights and, therefore, fall into the public domain. Any image you download here may be used commercially or privately without paying any additional fees or royalties other than the cost to download the high-resolution, fine-art image(s).
Who uses this site
Restored Traditions LC primarily services smaller publishers (graphic artists, printers, non profits, advertisers, funeral homes, public-relations firms, churches etc) needing quality and niche religious art at a reasonable price. Restored Traditions believes that publishers, for many of their projects, shouldn’t have to pay high licensing fees for contemporary artwork or photography when there is a plethora of public-domain artwork available that will deliver just as an effective message at a fraction of the cost. Individual consumers do, however, use this site and are encouraged to do so.
The Value of Restored Traditions
is the convenience of access to a vast collection of religious fine art in one location—saving you the time from finding images elsewhere. Every image Restored Traditions sells goes through a three-point quality check before it is listed for sale as a digital download. Some images you can find elsewhere, but others you won’t. Should you see an image you believe not to be in the public domain, please contact us and provide valid evidence, and we will remedy the situation accordingly.
What is Public Domain?
If a work falls into the Public Domain, it means that anyone can use it for anything without any worry of copyright infringement. Anything published before 1923 is automatically in the Public Domain. Anything published between 1923 and 1977 is also in the Public Domain, if the copyrights were not renewed or if there were no copyrights published on the work. A study from the United States Copyright Office in 1961 revealed that fewer than 15% of copyrights were renewed between 1923 and 1961.
What about photographs of public-domain art?
One cannot copyright a work by Leonardo da Vinci, but cannot the professional photograph of a da Vinci painting be copyrighted? The exquisitely short answer is no under certain conditions. The following two court rulings illustrate the point:
Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999) ruled that a ‘slavish copy’ of a public-domain work cannot be copyrighted because a ‘slavish copy’ does not demonstrate the original creativity that copyright law protects. This ruling applies especially to two-dimensional images. In the case of photographing public-domain sculpture, for example, this ruling does not hold as much weight because there possibly could exist an amount of original creativity that goes into photographing a statue from a particular angle with particular lighting etc.
Meshwerks, Inc. v. Toyota, 528 F3d 1258 (10th Circuit, 2008) ruled that the makers of a digital model of something in the public domain (a Toyota car in this case) whose ‘intent was to replicate, as exactly as possible, the image of certain Toyota vehicles’ did not demonstrate the degree of originality to be protected by Copyright law.
The public-domain and court ruling information on this page are primarily pertinent to the product sold on this Website. There are other discrepancies to Copyright Law, which Restored Traditions encourages you to investigate at the United States Copyright Office.
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