The Met Makes Its Images of Public-Domain Artworks Freely Available through New Open Access Policy | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Summary:

"Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today its adoption of a new policy: all images of public-domain artworks in the Museum's collection are now available for free and unrestricted use. This updated policy, known as Open Access, utilizes the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) designation. This policy change is an update to The Museum’s 2014 Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) initiative. The Met’s Open Access policy facilitates the use of more than 375,000 images of public-domain artworks for both scholarly and commercial purposes."

Link:

http://www.metmuseum.org/press/news/2017/open-access

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Tags:

oa.new oa.metropolitan_museum oa.museums oa.pd oa.licensing oa.cc oa.glam oa.usa oa.usa.ny oa.images oa.reuse oa.wikimedia oa.dpla oa.policies oa.digitization oa.libre oa.ch oa.copyright

Date tagged:

02/08/2017, 16:58

Date published:

02/08/2017, 11:58