This is genuinely exciting and quite a forceful statement from them - all the while recognising that the times and best practices have changed and that they should too.

I tested the system a bit.... I chose one of the PD works and clicked download:
http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=305961
It gives you a useful caption and metadata and asks what kind of person you are or organisation you represent, and then asks what kind of usage you will make of the image.
For the purposes of my experiment I chose "for profit company" and "commercial use", clicked submit and.... it downloaded straight away. No extra hurdles or warnings or requirements to pay etc. I suspect that the two questions are more about their interest in seeing how the files end up getting used - and that is a very fair thing for them to want to try and get stats on.

Fantastic!

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On 13 August 2013 12:07, Sydney <sydney.poore@gmail.com> wrote:
Sweet. They look to be encouraging use which is really great too

Sydney

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On Aug 13, 2013, at 6:51 AM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch@gmail.com> wrote:

Awesome.

A lot of us have spent time with them - and James. He came to the OpenGLAM US professional development event.

This is awesome! Woot! 

Sarah


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On Aug 13, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Lori Phillips <lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

I was very excited to see this blog post come out of the Getty today, from CEO James Cuno, who is both a polarizing and respected force in the museum world. In the U.S. we've been trying to encourage the Getty to release their Vocabularies into the public domain for years. In my last effort, I had the Dallas Museum of Art's Rob Stein tell me he would be sure to "strongly encourage" this as soon as he could, because there was really no reason why it shouldn't be. So that is a great win for us, in addition to the fact that the Getty is a new proponent and advocate for open culture in general. 


I'm also personally quite proud that the recent Horizon Report: Museum Edition was cited as his rationale, thanks to the fact that Open Content was included as a near-term horizon in the 2012 report. We worked hard to get that included this year, since Open Content has been on the bubble in past Horizon Reports. It's also exciting to see the Walters listed first among Cuno's listing of forward thinking institutions in the US who have paved the way for open culture.

This blog should prove useful for those still needing convincing - enjoy!

Lori

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