abril 24, 2014

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Open access program

Los Angeles County Museum of Art pertenece a una serie nueva, cada vez mayor, de museos, sobre todo americanos que permiten acceder, con libre uso, a una serie de imágenes de sus fondos.

Las imágenes se pueden descargar para cualquier uso, sea comercial o no comercial, lo que esta suponiendo un cambio de paradigma en el funcionamiento de los museos que, de esta manera, se hacen mucho más accesibles, participando en la educación de la gente.

LACMA ( Los Angeles County Museum of Art9

Image library

We recently redesigned our website, to incorporate more than 20,000 high quality downloadable images of artworks from our encyclopedic collection which we believe to be in the public domain—available without restriction, free of charge.* From ancient sculpture to Impressionist masters, from scroll paintings to Mesoamerican pottery, we hope these works of art will inform and inspire.

To find downloadable images, visit our collections database. Search by any criteria. On the search results page, at the top right, you will see an option that says "select only results with unrestricted images." Check this box to filter for results for which we offer a high quality downloadable image. Navigate to a particular artwork, and you will see a "download" option immediately below the image that will deliver the image to your desktop.

En su Collection search type marcamos Photographs

Seleccionamos : Show only results with unrestricted images.
Dentro de estas se encuentran, tal como indican las condiciones de uso

The text, images, and data, including without limitation audio and video clips, software, documentation, and other information contained in the files on this Site (collectively, the "Content") are either (1) images of works from LACMA's collections that LACMA believes are in the public domain, some of which are made available without restriction (these images are marked "Public Domain High Resolution Image Available" as described below); or (2) protected by copyright (the "Protected Content"). Such Content, whether or not in the public domain, may be subject to other restrictions as well, including rights of privacy and publicity, under applicable law. a. "Public Domain High Resolution Image Available": The Content on the Site marked "Public Domain High Resolution Image Available" consists of images of works from LACMA's permanent collections that are currently available in "high resolution" format and that LACMA believes are in the public domain. LACMA is providing high resolution images of these works free of charge and for use without restriction. The Public Domain High Resolution Image Available mark indicates that LACMA is unaware of any current copyright restrictions on the Content so designated, either because (i) the term of copyright has expired, (ii) no evidence has been found that copyright restrictions apply, or (iii) LACMA owns copyright but would like to share this Content with the public without exercising control as part of our mission to engage and educate our communities

Ejemplos

LACMA

http://collections.lacma.org/node/219029