Art interlude
I’ve just learned that all the museums have made paintings and books of paintings available to all of us to download for $0.00. The Rijksmuseum for instance.
So have that street in Delft.
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I’ve just learned that all the museums have made paintings and books of paintings available to all of us to download for $0.00. The Rijksmuseum for instance.
So have that street in Delft.
There was a campaign awhile back for the British Library to do something like this. The problem they have is the vast number of books they have of uncertain copyright. Under UK law you don’t have to declare copyright, you have it merely in virtue of being the creator of the work. On the other hand you can sell it and it can be inherited. Many books published in the UK in the first half of the 20th century have no copyright declaration. More often than not the author is dead and sometimes the publisher no longer exists. So it is often virtually impossible to tell if the copyright was transferred to the publisher or was retained by the author and whether it may have been inherited by someone alive today. Without a change in the copyright law there is the possibility, however remote, that someone might sue them if they put these books on line.
The museum is also embroiled in this controversy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358941/Dutch-gallery-fire-removing-offensive-terms-artworks-titles-descriptions-case-cause-offence.html#ixzz3uIitzHen
I’m pleased to see that one of my great-uncle George’s paintings is among the three picked to illustrate the article.
How cool!
Oh gosh, I didn’t see the name.
There’s nothing not to love about that painting. I could (and have) look at it for hours.
So have I.