Brilliant currency defacements
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What the actual fuck? Hey, Met, the words “public domain” mean that there is no copyright, hence no licensable element, hence no terms. How can a museum square its mission of conservation and dissemination of culture with spreading vicious lies about copyright?
Remember, faithful reproductions of works in the public domain do not attract new copyrights, as a matter of well-settled US law.
