Frequently Asked Questions

How much is postage?

All orders sent to the UK are shipped FREE OF CHARGE.

Orders being sent to the rest of the world are charged a total of £1.99, regardless of how many DVDs you order. You are also responsible for any local taxes or customs charges.

Some Multi-DVD collections are sent with FREE SHIPPING anywhere in the world.

If you order digital downloads there is no delivery charge, they’re cheaper and you’ll get your products immediately after payment!

Can I return DVDs which I’ve bought from you?

DVDs can be returned for a full refund as long as the seal has not been removed. Our address is further down this page. We cannot accept returns of DVDs if you have broken the seal. Please contact us before returning any items so that we can provide any appropriate assistance.

Digital downloads cannot be refunded.

What’s on your DVDs?

The jpeg images on our DVDs are out of copyright and in the public domain in the UK, US and all countries that follow the same copyright rules, and therefore can be used as many times as you like without paying any royalties or commissions to anyone!

The DVDs  also include a comprehensive article about the copyright rules in both the UK and the US and how they affect each other.  Not only will you be able to understand the rules that put these pictures into the public domain, but it will also arm you with the knowledge so that you can decide if other pictures can be freely used in the same way.

What DPI are your images?

All of our images were originally scanned at 300dpi or 600dpi. See our blog post, “What DPI are our images?” for more information.

What can I do with the images on the DVDs?

You can use the images on this disc for anything you like – make prints to frame, postcards, posters, greetings cards, decoupage and pyramage for card-making, background papers for card-making and scrapbooking, collage, altered art, calendars, mugs, mouse-mats, t-shirts, fridge-magnets and so much more!  Use them in a book, on your website, blog or promotional post on Facebook.

If you wanted, you could start a whole new business, selling items that you’ve made. 

Feel free to sell the products you make on Ebay, Etsy, Facebook, your own website, at craft fairs, school fairs, church fairs, in shops – anywhere that there are buyers. Sell for charity, sell for yourself, use the items for educational purposes – let your imagination run wild!

Are there any limitations?

You may not reproduce our DVDs as a whole or in part to be sold as raw images on another disc or website or in any way that might be considered competition to ourselves. 

Can I use your DVDs on my mac?

Our DVDs are suitable for a PC or Mac computer with a DVD drive.

Can I download the content instead of being sent a DVD?

All of our products are available as Digital Downloads and are cheaper than the DVDs. Extract the ZIP file and you’ll have the contents of the DVD. You can either burn it to DVD yourself or just use the extracted images directly.

Digital downloads can be downloaded a maximum of 5 times, after which you will need to contact us to have this reset.

Please download your purchases, keep them safe and consider backing up your files.

Are DVDs supplied in a box?

DVDs are printed, supplied in a plastic wallets and sent in a sturdy cardboard disc mailers that fit through your letterbox.  The software boxes shown on the website are for illustrative purposes only.

Can I play your DVDs on my television?

If your DVD or Blu-ray player supports it, you can play a slideshow of the files on our DVDs. We’ve tried this on our Blu-ray player and it looks really nice. Please refer to the instructions for your DVD or Blu-ray player to see if this is possible for you.

What’s your contact information?

Public Domain Image Library is operated by AS Web Trading. Our address is:

AS Web Trading
12 The Approach
Rayleigh
SS6 9AA
United Kingdom

VAT Number: GB224038931

Email – As we are an Internet only retailer this is our preferred method of contact. If you have any questions about our products or your order, please email us at support@publicdomainimagelibrary.com. We will then try and respond to your query as promptly as we can.