Getty gives 4,600 images to the public domain

The J. Paul Getty Museum opened part of its collection and transferred it to the public domain. As part of the Open Content Program, nearly 4,600 high-resolution images are fully exempted from exclusive intellectual property rights. Anyone can use them without any restrictions, for example, as illustrations on Wikipedia.

Among the images in the public domain, for example, scanned copies of some of the paintings of Vincent van Gogh. Of course, the copyright on the pictures themselves has long expired, but so far there have not been scanned images of this quality online.

Many of the released pictures are larger than 100 megabytes.
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Irises, Vincent van Gogh, 1889, download (28 MB)

Getty promises that this is only the first step, and in the future even more images will be given to free access. Now the company is analyzing the copyright restrictions on each picture in order to assess the possibility of which of them it can release.


Photographer: Roger Fenton (Roger Fenton), 1854-1858


Painting by Claude Monet "Snowy Morning" (Snow Effect, Morning), France, 1891


Unknown photographer, crater on the moon, 1850s photo (second half), high resolution image


Unfinished Eiffel Tower. Photographer: Louis-Émile Durandelle, November 23, 1888


The man in the balloon. Photographer: Gaspard Félix Tournachon, circa 1863