Getty Announces New Program Lifting Restrictions on Use of Digital Images

From http://news.getty.edu/press-materials/press-releases/getty-open-content-images.htm

The J. Paul Getty Museum collects in seven distinct areas, including Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts, and photographs gathered internationally. The Museum's mission is to make the collection meaningful and attractive to a broad audience by presenting and interpreting the works of art through educational programs, special exhibitions, publications, conservation, and research.

On August 12, the Getty announced that it was lifting restrictions on the use of images to which the Getty holds all the rights or are in the public domain.

As a result, there are roughly 4,600 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum available in high resolution on the Getty's website for use without restriction—representing 4,689 objects (some images show more than one object), including paintings, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, antiquities and sculpture and decorative arts. The Getty plans to add other images, until eventually all applicable Getty-owned or public domain images are available, without restrictions, online.

Read more about the collections and how to browse and access them at http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/open-content-an-idea-whose-time-has-come