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Photographer loses case against Met museum who used his photo without permission

Apr 7, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic 15 Comments
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When the Metropolitan Museum of Art set up an exhibition in 2019, they used a 1982 photo by photographer Lawrence Marano. The photographer claims that the Met stole it and filed a lawsuit against it. However, a panel of judges has ruled in favor of the museum, stating that it used the image “for educational purposes”

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The Met Museum digitizes the entire collection and releases over 375,000 images for free

Feb 15, 2017 by Dunja Djudjic 4 Comments
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The Met Museum in New York recently published over 375,000 images under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.  In other words, this is 375,000 images to use as you like, free of charge and without any restrictions.

There are photos of artworks and different historical items in the collection. But what will make photographers especially happy is a vast number of photographs under CC0 license. They were taken in various techniques, depicting all sorts of events, people, and objects. And they are all recorded in different periods of photographic history.

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