Metropolitan Museum of Art publishes more than 370 thousand art works with free & freely available CC 0

It is one of the world's largest museums in New York, USAMetropolitan Museum of Art", But you can see photos of over 375,000 well-known art worksCreative Commons Zero(CC 0) notation as announced.

Image and Data Resources | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources

The Metropolitan Museum of Art makes 375,000 images of public domain art freely available under Creative Commons Zero - Wikimedia Blog
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/07/the-met-public-art-creative-commons/

Met Museum Makes 375,000 Images Available for Free - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/design/met-museum-makes-375000-images-available-for-free.html

A number of prominent artworks owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art are open to CC 0, "abandoning the maximum possible right worldwide" to copyrighted works. CC0 notation work can be used for free without credit. The number of artworks that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has made CC 0 this time is over 375,000 points, which may increase the opportunity to see prominent artworks on the internet etc.

In doing so, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, was foundedWikimedia FoundationWill reveal that in cooperation with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we will work to make it more accessible to art work published at CC 0.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art removes the license restrictions, and what kind of artworks have been made as CC0 notation is as follows. The following works are paintings titled "The Adoration of the Magi" drawn by Italian Bartolo di Freddie in 1390.

Bartolo di Fredi | The Adoration of the Magi | The Met


At the bottom of the work is written "Public Domain". Those with this indication can be reused under any purpose, there is no need to write credits, of course you can use it for free.


The 375 thousand points photograph which was newly copyright-free by the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes photographs by Emmanuel Roche "Washington across the Delaware River"And Monet's"Water lilyIn addition to paintings "Suck · Back · GownArt objects such as "Included" are included. All these are from the Metropolitan Museum of ArtSearch pageIt is possible to search from CC0 notation without credit notation if CC0 notation is available.

The first opportunity to publish the work of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the CC0 notation is a small gold pendant with motifs made in the colonial era "Frog of goldIt is said that the photo of Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.


In Wikipedia, the project to make the works of the Metropolitan Museum of Art into individual pages of Wikipedia "WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art"Is starting.