These are the ways things enter the public domain Things get put into the public domain, either by the expiration of copyright or as an act of the person who created it. “Free to use” is not the same as the public owning the works. I didn’t think a lot of the sites I find and describe below really match up to this. Anyone can use a public domain work without obtaining permission, but no one can ever own it. The public owns these works, not an individual author or artist. The term “public domain” refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws. The Stanford Copyright & Fair Use site handles the definitions we want: Not to get too mired in terminology, I might question if a site that offers images “royalty free” or “free for commercial use” or “use with no restrictions” truly is public domain. There is nothing technical illegal about their practice, but to me… it’s covered in slime. They not only take, as public domain means no restrictions, but they drop the attribution in the process and often “share” them under conditions not of really a license as we know it. In that space are ones that just harvest images from other public domain sites (a lot of them take from Pixabay – a site which provides image credit). In the below screenshot we see that desktop wallpaper policy settings have been successfully applied.A year later I see way more of these fishy “free” image sites. The users may have to log off and login once to see the changed desktop wallpaper. On the client machine wait for the policy to get updated. If you are looking to apply the same policy to computers then you should make use of Loopback processing of Group Policy Note that this policy is applicable only to domain users. You need to apply this group policy to the user group. This will work best with most screen resolutions. The wallpaper name should be set to either local path of the image or it can be UNC path. In the details pane, double-click Desktop Wallpaper. In Group Policy Management Editor, expand User Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, expand Desktop, and then click Desktop. This will open the Group Policy Management Editor. Provide a name to the GPO, once the GPO is created, right click on the GPO and click Edit. To link an existing GPO, right-click the domain or OU within the domain, and then click Link an Existing GPO. You can also create a group policy object and later use the option Link an existing GPO. In the Group Policy Management Console, right click on the domain and click Create a GPO in this domain and link it here. Open the Group Policy Management Console. Deploy Desktop Background Wallpaper using Group Policy However note that Group Policy management tools also are included in the Remote Server Administration Tools pack to provide a way for you to administer Group Policy settings from your desktop. You can manage Group Policy settings and Group Policy Preferences in an Active Directory Domain Services environment through the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). To configure Group Policy settings that affect only a local computer or user, you can use the Local Group Policy Editor. To brief you about group policy, Group Policy is an infrastructure that allows you to specify managed configurations for users and computers through Group Policy settings and Group Policy Preferences. ![]() In this post we will see the easiest way to configure desktop wallpaper using group policy. Note that there are many other ways to deploy wallpaper. If you are asked to deploy to a specific wallpaper in your organization, then group policy will be one of your choice. Twitter Facebook LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Reddit Print Subscribe
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