The answers to these questions turned out a little bit more complex than what our enquirers imagined. Whether it is possible to use a picture licensed under Creative Commons, and turn it into a digital work / NFT, knowing that this picture represents a work of art that is still copyrighted.Whether it is possible to commercialise a children’s card game representing antique works of art.Whether it is possible to commercialise t-shirts with Rembrandt’s works printed on them.In the past couple of years, our IP Helpline received a notable number of questions on the topic of copyright protection applied to artworks, old and new. They want to be able to claim copyright over all existing photographs of particular works of art, so that they can make money from marketing those images.For this month’s blog post, we decided to take a break from Horizon Europe and to instead take a closer look at an interesting copyright issue. This is one of the reasons that so many museums will not allow any photography at all at their exhibits. I can't blame them for wanting to make some money with the images, even if they didn't paint the pictures themselves.
And they often don't charge much (or anything) for admittance. Companies don't need to have the life of the artist plus 70 years of rights on works of art.īut in this case, museums and galleries pour money into purchasing significant paintings and maintaining them in conditions that will prolong their existence. I'm usually not a huge fan of draconian copyright laws and I think that in a lot of cases these days they go overboard. July 9, - And you can hardly blame them for doing so, considering how much they often pay to get and maintain their collections. The museum doesn't own the copyright in that case either. I mean, an artist will often still be alive and selling prints of their work, even when their original piece is in a museum. I know museums need to make their money somehow, but I don't think they should have the right to decide which images become public domain. The photograph itself doesn't really have artistic merit, if it's just a plain reproduction. July 9, - I think they should still allow those images in the public domain though.
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