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I'm glad they state on their website that the images are in the public domain.

In a similar thread on HN some time ago, I was very surprised to learn some museums (and commenters) think that they own the copyright to high-resolution digital reproductions of their (pre-1923) collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17500312

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Different countries, different laws.

Indeed, but for that specific case of the Van Gogh Museum in The Netherlands, the same principle from Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. was reached in the Van Dale/Romme arrest [1] and has been upheld in other cases.

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_Van_Dale/Romme

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