{"id":650,"date":"2008-05-19T23:09:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T04:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/05\/19\/copyright-at-the-art-museum\/"},"modified":"2008-07-13T16:52:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T21:52:06","slug":"copyright-at-the-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/05\/19\/copyright-at-the-art-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright at the Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3287\/2509562215_4677f15d70_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2013\/2510394796_b728b22e2b_o.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend we visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledomuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toledo Museum of Art<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impressive\u00a0facility with pieces from many famous artists.\u00a0 The spaces available in the galleries offer exceptional viewing environments.<\/p>\n<p>As with many museums, most of the art can be photographed as long as no flash is used.\u00a0 Modern art is normally off limits because the copyright has not expired.\u00a0 The cutoff for copyright protection is 1923.\u00a0 Anything before that time is now in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>We like paintings from the impressionist era (late 1800&#8217;s).\u00a0 TMA has a wonderful collection with\u00a0pieces by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne\u00a0and Pissarro.\u00a0 Moving through the exhibit toward 1900, we ran across a Van Gogh and other post-impressionist paintings.\u00a0 We were told\u00a0not to photograph the last painting before the door.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still under copyright.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the description next to the painting.\u00a0 The picture was painted in 1919.\u00a0 I asked the docent if there was something special about this particular painting as everything else created in 1919 is now in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this caused a bit of confusion.\u00a0 The docent explained that everything less than one hundred years old was still protected by copyright.\u00a0 This picture still had a\u00a0few years left.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I happen to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/04\/22\/all-human-knowledge-in-your-pocket\/\" target=\"_blank\">all human knowledge<\/a> available to me on my iPod.\u00a0 I showed (the growing crowd of docents) that 1923 was the magic year.\u00a0 Anything created before that year is now unconditionally in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>They still wouldn&#8217;t let me take a picture.\u00a0 The director was not there and he would have to change the policy.\u00a0 Oh well, at least a few more people know\u00a0about copyright and the public domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend we visited the Toledo Museum of Art.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impressive\u00a0facility with pieces from many famous artists.\u00a0 The spaces available in the galleries offer exceptional viewing environments. As with many museums, most of the art can be photographed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/05\/19\/copyright-at-the-art-museum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[52,339],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","tag-art-museum","tag-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}