<story><title>Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Digitized and Put Online</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/nearly-1000-paintings-drawings-vincent-van-gogh-now-digitized-put-online-view-download-collection.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>As nice as this is, it would have been even better if they’d used an understandable CC licence instead of the custom non-commercial sub-A4 one they’ve decided on. There are at least a couple of museums now that have licenced their entire digital artworks as CC0[1][2], and I’ve been talking to Munchmuseet in Oslo recently who are planning to licence their entire new digitised collection[3] as CC4 (free use with attribution).&lt;p&gt;It’s important for me as I need PD (or CC0, which is functionally equivalent) to pick decent cover art for Standard Ebooks[4] works. As it is we usually spend hours hunting through pre-1923 art books on Hathi for the perfect piece, and CC0 collections make that much much easier.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;metmuseum.org&amp;#x2F;art&amp;#x2F;collection&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;metmuseum.org&amp;#x2F;art&amp;#x2F;collection&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rijksmuseum.nl&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;rijksstudio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rijksmuseum.nl&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;rijksstudio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;munch.emuseum.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;munch.emuseum.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;standardebooks.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;standardebooks.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Confiks</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t understand your comment, and all subsequent responses along the same line. The digitized van Gogh paintings are perfect copies of the original public domain works. For the US, Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. [1] makes it perfectly clear that the images are not protected by copyright, and there is similar law and legislation in Europe.&lt;p&gt;What do you mean with the ability of the museums to choose a license for the paintings, and what is the &amp;quot;sub-A4&amp;quot; license you refer to?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel...&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Digitized and Put Online</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/nearly-1000-paintings-drawings-vincent-van-gogh-now-digitized-put-online-view-download-collection.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>As nice as this is, it would have been even better if they’d used an understandable CC licence instead of the custom non-commercial sub-A4 one they’ve decided on. There are at least a couple of museums now that have licenced their entire digital artworks as CC0[1][2], and I’ve been talking to Munchmuseet in Oslo recently who are planning to licence their entire new digitised collection[3] as CC4 (free use with attribution).&lt;p&gt;It’s important for me as I need PD (or CC0, which is functionally equivalent) to pick decent cover art for Standard Ebooks[4] works. As it is we usually spend hours hunting through pre-1923 art books on Hathi for the perfect piece, and CC0 collections make that much much easier.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;metmuseum.org&amp;#x2F;art&amp;#x2F;collection&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;metmuseum.org&amp;#x2F;art&amp;#x2F;collection&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rijksmuseum.nl&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;rijksstudio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rijksmuseum.nl&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;rijksstudio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;munch.emuseum.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;munch.emuseum.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;standardebooks.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;standardebooks.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdsa5325</author><text>If the photos of public domain paintings are exact and not modified, then they also fall under public domain.</text></comment>