The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like

Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by dhosek on Thursday March 14, 2024 @10:04PM (#39711348)

Some do. A lot depends on the library’s resources, but the Library of Congress has a lot of free imagery available, and I think a number of other large public libraries with art collections also do the same.

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Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by autoexec on Thursday March 14, 2024 @10:28PM (#39711472)

Hopefully they're taking advantage of this release and adding these images and scans into their own collections.

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Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by chefandy on Friday March 15, 2024 @01:50AM (#39712428)

I'd be shocked if the IA wasn't all over this already.

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Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by GuB-42 on Friday March 15, 2024 @05:55AM (#39713817)

Many AIs didn't care about whether images were free to use before training. Including many from Getty, with the watermark, and it resulted in a lawsuit that is still ongoing.

And 88k images is tiny when we consider that LAION has billions of entries.

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Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by Vinnl on Friday March 15, 2024 @06:04AM (#39713873)

IA = the Internet Archive, https://archive.org.

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Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by chefandy on Friday March 15, 2024 @10:28AM (#39716152)

Yeah, sorry. Theory of mind failure on my part. Not everybody has my list of acronyms in their head, apparently.

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