loner - 3:42 pm on Jul 3, 2007 (gmt 0)

Something that might be kept in mind too, is that although certain images may be in the public domain, who owns the copyright to the scan of that image, and what are the terms of use?

For instance, recently I found some images that are scanned from lithographs in the public domain. As I operate a commercial web site, per their terms of use, I had to obtain the writen permission of those who scanned those images, as this was their product, prior to my displaying them along with credit to them.