Official term
Custom license or artist terms
The work is offered under terms written for a particular artist, project, platform, or transaction rather than a standard public license.
For visitors
Read the complete terms attached to the object. The Museum's summary is a guide to those terms, not a replacement for them.
Museum practice
These readings describe how the Museum normally presents, studies, publishes, and cares for a lawfully acquired work. The exact rights record, artist agreements, and applicable law continue to govern each object.
- Display the work
Ordinary with recorded terms
Display follows the exact custom terms and any artist instructions. Where those terms are silent, lawful acquisition carries the Museum's ordinary presumption of faithful collection display.
- Publish online
Ordinary with recorded terms
Online presentation follows the custom terms. Silence on collection documentation is read alongside the work's network-native publication, acquisition context, and ordinary museum practice.
- Publish in print
Ordinary with recorded terms
Print use follows the exact terms, with proportionate scholarship distinguished from cover, decorative, licensing, and merchandise uses.
- Make preservation copies
Ordinary with recorded terms
Preservation follows the custom terms and the Museum's duty of care. Any migration, emulation, or alteration is documented against the acquired version.
- Share an adaptation
Ordinary with recorded terms
A public adaptation follows the exact terms. Faithful technical conservation remains distinct from a remix or new artistic work.
- Make commercial use
Ordinary with recorded terms
Commercial image and product use follows the exact terms, especially provisions concerning merchandise, advertising, endorsement, revenue, and holder status.
What the Museum can do
- Use the work only within the permissions supplied by the exact terms, together with any rights the Museum holds independently.
- Preserve the complete text, version, source, effective date, and evidence that the terms apply to the specific object and components.
Conditions
- Follow the exact custom terms and do not summarize them as equivalent to a Creative Commons license unless they are legally identical.
What remains outside the term
- A platform label, artist statement, or token description may omit important conditions; the complete operative text controls.
- Different components of one digital work may carry different terms.
Exact English legal code
This entry is a status, mark, or case description rather than a public license. Its official definition is linked above.