>Um, no. You can't take a public domain image and claim you own it and are thus due licensing fees Yes, you can. You would be wrong. And you would lose in cou

>Um, no. You can't take a public domain image and claim you own it and are thus due licensing fees Yes, you can. You would be wrong. And you would lose in court when attempting to extract those license fees. But the act of making such a claim is not itself something that can be sued over, because no one has rights to the photo once it has been released to the public domain, and thus no one has standing to sue.