Now, access images of U.S. art museum for free @ Metropolitan Museum of Art’s
Artwork free to download website, no permission required
All images of public-domain artworks in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection — about 3,75,000 — are now free for
anyone to use however they may please.
The museum announced on Tuesday that it had
changed its open-access policy to allow free, unrestricted use of any images of
artworks in the public domain, using the license designation Creative Commons
Zero, known as CC0.
For example, El Greco’s “The Vision of Saint
John” (1609-14) is free to download in high resolution from the Met’s website,
no permission required.
“This has been a priority for over a decade,”
Thomas P. Campbell, the museum’s director, said at a news conference. “Twenty
years ago, as a scholar, we had to negotiate access even for catalog cards.”
Now, anyone can download images directly from
the Met’s website. “They can be used however you want to use them,” said Loic
Tallon, the Met’s chief digital officer.
The 3,75,000 images available represent “the
main body of our collections,” Mr. Campbell said. An additional 65,000 artworks
have been digitised but are not in the public domain. (The Met’s collection
totals about 1.5 million works, but Mr. Campbell said the remaining art that
will be digitised includes prints, engravings and ephemera.)
The Met is not the first museum to do this —
other institutions to do so include the National Gallery of Art in Washington
and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. — New York Times News Service
Resources for Open Access Image Collections
in U.S. Museums:
Source | The Hindu | 9 February 2017
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