Met Goes Public Domain

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is putting 375,000 digitized images online under a Creative Commons CC0 (effectively Public Domain) licence. As Techdirt notes <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170208/13005636669/met-goes-public-domain-with-cc0-it-shouldnt-have-to.shtml>, it shouldn’t have to bother specifying such a licence: we should be able to take for granted that digitizations of public-domain works should themselves be public-domain. Unfortunately, others with control over such works (and sizeable legal budgets) think differently. So all kudos to the Met for making this very clear.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
Unfortunately, others with control over such works (and sizeable legal budgets) think differently. So all kudos to the Met for making this very clear.
Auckland Museum licences CCBY by default. Sadly Te Papa is CCBYNC :( Cheers, William
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