<div dir="ltr">That it's a non-commercial licence is really disappointing, but that's still a little better than nothing…<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/04/28/british-museum-makes-1-9-million-images-available-for-free/">https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/04/28/british-museum-makes-1-9-million-images-available-for-free/</a>  <br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.1em;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Varela Round",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">The British Museum has revamped its online collections database, making over 1.9 million photos of its collection available for free online under a Creative Commons license.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.1em;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Varela Round",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:1.6em 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">Under the new agreement the majority of the 1.9 million images are being made available for anyone to use for free under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,69,0);text-decoration-line:none">Creative Commons 4.0 license</a>. Users no longer need to register to use these photographs, and can now download them directly from the British Museum.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.1em;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Varela Round",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:1.6em 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">Under the terms of the Creative Commons license, you are free to share and adapt the images for non-commercial use, but must include a credit to the British Museum.</p>[continues]<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font color="#666666"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">-- <br>Owen Blacker, London GB<br></span><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="http://twitter.com/owenblacker" target="_blank">@owenblacker</a></span></div></span></font></div></div></div></div>