I think they are deliberately obscure about copyright. There is a photo in my book taken by Man Ray of a Picasso portrait of Gertrude Stein with Stein seated in front of it. When I asked the Man Ray foundation about copyright they told me that it came out of copyright in 2023, or some such. Very nice of them. I think they may have been wrong and I paid anyway. But in your case you are using it in a blog and not for commercial purposes so you should have been ok. For what it is worth, I make no money from sales of my book--so no profit from using the photo. But I got paid for delivering the manuscript.
Thank you for this which resonates with me in many ways. It fits delightfully with things I say in my just-published book Davidson I (2025) Art or Scribbles? In the eye of the beholder: the evolutionary emergence of visual communication. Springer Nature, Cham
By the way, surely that drawing must be out of copyright. If the museum claims ownership they could easily be persuaded to grant you copyright, I would have thought.
Thank you. Your book sounds really interesting. I think the drawing is out of copyright but it’s a drawing in a gallery and I f do I’d check whether I could use the photo of it online but it’s very unclear if I can..I suspect not based on the information provided.
Hello, thank you for your comment. Your book sounds really interesting! I think the drawing probably is out of copyright but when I looked at the website to see if I could use it, it’s not very clear as to whether I could use their image 😬. I’ll have to
I think they are deliberately obscure about copyright. There is a photo in my book taken by Man Ray of a Picasso portrait of Gertrude Stein with Stein seated in front of it. When I asked the Man Ray foundation about copyright they told me that it came out of copyright in 2023, or some such. Very nice of them. I think they may have been wrong and I paid anyway. But in your case you are using it in a blog and not for commercial purposes so you should have been ok. For what it is worth, I make no money from sales of my book--so no profit from using the photo. But I got paid for delivering the manuscript.
Thank you for this which resonates with me in many ways. It fits delightfully with things I say in my just-published book Davidson I (2025) Art or Scribbles? In the eye of the beholder: the evolutionary emergence of visual communication. Springer Nature, Cham
By the way, surely that drawing must be out of copyright. If the museum claims ownership they could easily be persuaded to grant you copyright, I would have thought.
Very nice post.
Thank you. Your book sounds really interesting. I think the drawing is out of copyright but it’s a drawing in a gallery and I f do I’d check whether I could use the photo of it online but it’s very unclear if I can..I suspect not based on the information provided.
Hello, thank you for your comment. Your book sounds really interesting! I think the drawing probably is out of copyright but when I looked at the website to see if I could use it, it’s not very clear as to whether I could use their image 😬. I’ll have to