Fotografia di Berenice Abbott (1935)

La New York Public Library ha annunciato che a partire dal 6 gennaio 2016 i documenti digitalizzati disponibili nella biblioteca digitale NYPL Digital Collections sono scaricabili e liberamente riutilizzabili senza restrizioni di copyright. Si tratta di più di 180.000 documenti, che spaziano dalle fotografie ai manoscritti, dalle mappe storiche agli spartiti musicali, dai poster alle riproduzioni di opere d’arte.

La notizia è commentata diffusamente anche sul blog della NYPL:

«Today we are proud to announce that out-of-copyright materials in NYPL Digital Collections are now available as high-resolution downloads. No permission required, no hoops to jump through: just go forth and reuse!

[…]

The public domain release spans the breadth and depth of NYPL’s holdings, from the Library’s rich New York City collection, historic maps, botanical illustrations, unique manuscripts, photographs, ancient religious texts, and more. Materials include:

• Berenice Abbott’s iconic documentation of 1930s New York for the Federal Art Project
• Farm Security Administration photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and others
• Manuscripts of American literary masters like Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Papers and correspondence of founding American political figures like Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison
• Sheet music for popular American songs at the turn of the 20th century
• WPA-era lithographs, etchings, and pastels by African American artists
• Lewis Hine’s photographs of Ellis Island immigrants and social conditions in early 20th century America
• Anna Atkins’ cyanotypes of British algae, the first recorded photographic work by a woman (1843)
• Handscrolls of the Tale of Genji, created in 1554
• Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts from Western Europe
• Over 20,000 maps and atlases documenting New York City, North America, and the world
• More than 40,000 stereoscopic views documenting all regions of the United States 

Visit nypl.org/publicdomain for information about the materials related to the public domain update and links to all of the projects demonstrating creative reuse of public domain materials. Go forth, and reuse!»

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