Hi, I wanted to add a famous painting in my story so I downloaded it from wikipedia. Now, I don’t own any right, but it’s written on wikipedia that the image is of public domain. Does anyone have any experience with similar situations? Should I go for it anyway, or it’s better not to risk it?
As long as the image is public domain, your good to go. If it isn’t, that is considered copyright and you can’t use it. What famous painting are you using and who is the artist?
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Botticelli’s “Primavera” 
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So I did some research and the image is public domain.
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Great! Thanks for the confirm 
Yeah I was wondering how to add it as a background because this person said she just made some new backgrounds and I wanted to use them if I gave her credit but have no idea how to use them