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The Met Makes 375,000 Public Domain Images Available (fortune.com)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Tuesday that more than 375,000 of the Museum's "public-domain artworks" are now available for unrestricted use. From a report: "We have been working toward the goal of sharing our images with the public for a number of years," said Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Met, in a statement. "Our comprehensive and diverse museum collection spans 5,000 years of world culture and our core mission is to be open and accessible for all who wish to study and enjoy the works of art in our care." The image collection covers photographs, paintings, and sculptures, among other works. Images now available for both scholarly and commercial purposes include Emanuel Leutze's famous painting Washington Crossing the Delaware; photographs by Walker Evans, Alfred Steiglitz, and Dorothea Lange; and even some Vincent van Gogh paintings.
Seem that read about that somewhere already.
are now available for unrestricted use
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FFS its still even on the front page for me.
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
This story is a duplicate of one from earlier today: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/02/07/2323254/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-makes-375000-images-available-for-free
Do they force you to queue for a ticket booth where you have to explain why you won't pay their $25 'suggested' donation before they let you use them?
Hey msmash. You realize this story is already on the front page of slashdot, right?
This stuff must really matter a lot. Less than 15 hours apart. A new record?
It's full of dupes!