Re:Artvee – Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and I...
by robin_reala on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:56AM
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The big problem with Artvee remains that they don’t link back to the image source, which would prove whether it’s properly public domain or not. As it stands you have to take them at their word.
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Re:Artvee – Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and I...
by sudobash1 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @11:44AM
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IANAL (and I am linking to Wikipedia) but I don't believe this is a problem in the US (as long as the painting is out of copywrite) due to Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Cor....
In Germany on the other hand, things are different: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11983043
Re:Artvee – Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and I...
by robin_reala on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:16PM
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Yes, but how do you know the original image is out of copyright? It’s mostly obvious for older pieces, but for newer ones it’s not always obvious when an artist painted a work. Even with apparently older images, the worry is that the photo is actually of a reworking of an older piece that isn’t out of copyright.
This would be solved by linking each photo back to the originating gallery.
(I contribute to Standard Ebooks – https://standardebooks.org/ – and would like to use Artvee’s imagery for covers, but without a link back to the originating site to check for a CC0 grant it ends up being a trawl through Hathi looking for photographic proof that the image is out of copyright.)