On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Elias Friedman <elipongo@gmail.com> wrote:

The new policy is still too restrictive for commons:

"...we do insist that all images personally shot be used ONLY for personal reference. They cannot be published for commercial use."

Regardless of their photography policy, the problem here is the vast majority of their collection and exhibitions contain post-1923 works. Per derivative works part of copyright law, you need permission from the artist. (unlikely to happen!)

For pre-1923 works, we could (unadvised!) do like we did with the National Portrait Gallery and just steal images off their website! Per derivative works, photographing the item does not give them copyright.

-Katie (@aude)

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On Dec 24, 2010 8:29 AM, "Liam Wyatt" <liamwyatt@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just got sent this:
>
> http://hyperallergic.com/15410/museum-of-arts-design-lifts-photo-ban/
>
> Thought folks in NYC might like to know :-)
> (although, I suppose that many things in there are still copyrighted which
> means that - with no USA freedom of panorama - you still can't put them on
> Commons...)
>
> Perhaps you already new this and it's old news, but good news nevertheless!
>
> Do you have, and if not, do you think it would be valuable to create, a
> document listing the status of various cultural institutions in the NYC area
> according to their photographic and other policies that have bearing on
> free-culture? Perhaps that might be a good pilot project for the
> free-culture alliance??
>
> -Liam
>
> wittylama.com/blog
> Peace, love & metadata

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